[The role of the pharmacist to an inpatient in order to switch from inpatient treatment to a home-based care of an outpatient--the usefulness of a patient record notebook in cancer chemotherapy].

We have been successfully using a patient's record notebook in home-based outpatient cancer chemotherapy since 2003. Many of the patients expressed their satisfaction carrying a patient record notebook through our questionnaires designed to illicit details of their side effects during the chemotherapy. There are so many tasks the patient has to do by his own once he leaves the hospital and to become an outpatient.