Abstract
Author(s): Dilip G. Maheshwari, Manali R. Patel
Health care is nearly 10 years behind other industries in its efforts to reduce the errors. Medication error may be nobody's baby, but when it happens, it could well turn out to be everyone's worry and the reasons given for medication error range from silly to the downright serious. The hazardous drugs are known to be mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic, so extra precaution should be taken while storing, diluting, administering the drugs and disposing the waste. The objectives of this article are to define the standards for using cancer chemotherapy in hospitals; to tackle any spillage of drug and how to dispose of the waste of anticancer drugs. It can be also helpful in determining regulatory requirements of hazardous drugs in different countries like US, Europe, Australia and India. This could be beneficial to any hospital where chemotherapy is given without any defined standard operating procedure
