During cancer treatment, many patients experience chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting which leads to lower quality of life and poorer adherence to subsequent chemotherapy cycles. Study aim was to assess antiemetic therapy prescribing and nausea and vomiting control in the acute (24 hours post-chemotherapy) and delayed phase (days 2–4 post-chemotherapy). Factors influencing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting control were also determined. Information on antiemetic premedication was gathered from patient medical records. Data regarding antiemetic therapy post-discharge and nausea and vomiting control in both phases were obtained using patient questionnaires. Antiemetic therapy prescribing was compared with internal chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting prevention and control guidelines. Predictive factors for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting control were evaluated using binary logistic regression. 62 patients were enrolled in the study. 50 (80.6 %) patients received adequate antiemetic premedication, regarding the procedure of the most emetogenic cytostatic drug and 8 (12.9 %) regarding Hesketh algorithm. In the acute phase, 46 (74.2 %) patients reported well-controlled nausea and vomiting. None of the patients was prescribed post-discharge antiemetic therapy as per guidelines. In the delayed phase, nausea and vomiting were more frequent: well-controlled and uncontrolled chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting were reported by 39 (62.9 %) and 23 (37.1 %) patients, respectively. Overall, statistically significant predictive factors for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting control were appropriate prescription of corticosteroids (OR=9.025, p=0.019) and patient age (OR=0.851, p=0.002). Delayed nausea and vomiting control was dependent on age (OR=0.885, p=0.030) and acute nausea and vomiting control (OR=17.377, p=0.001). Majority of the patients were prescribed adequate antiemetic therapy for the acute but not for the delayed phase, which may have resulted in more patients experiencing delayed nausea and vomiting.
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