Performance evaluation of the HPLC diode array and evaporative light scattering detection for the implementation of dose-banded gemcitabine infusion bags.

Background: Dose banding (DB) was used to optimise the individualisation of patient treatments with gemcitabine (Gem) in order to improve workload planning at the pharmacy of the University Hospital Centre of Besançon (UHCB). A new simple and fast high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was also developed for the quantification of Gem without dilution of the infusion bags.

Methods: Individual doses of Gem preparations were retrospectively analysed over a 1-year period to determine the frequency of prepared doses.