BOPA members Published in the Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice

The findings of a pharmacy undergraduate project investigating app awareness amongst CML patients have recently been published in the Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice.  BOPA members Teresa Chu, Nick Duncan and Andrea Preston worked with Saffiya Khadam, a final year pharmacy undergraduate at University of Birmingham to survey nearly 300 patients with CML.  The results of the survey were presented by Saffiya at BOPA 2020 and were used to inform the development of the recently launched, My CML patient app – https://mycml.thetechcompany.co.uk/

Read the article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10781552221090904 

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