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11091488

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-1
pubmed:abstractText
To value feasibility of early discharge in febrile granulocytopenic patients, 27 original paper published in the last 11 years were analyzed concerning these clinical and therapeutic approaches. A Medline search of English language literature published in the last 11 years (1988-1999) used the key words neutropenia, fever, cancer, home-antibiotic therapy, short course of antibiotic therapy, and early discharge. Twenty-seven original papers fulfilling the study criteria were identified. In these studies, 5208 episodes were evaluated: there were 538 failures with 87 deaths. Features of low-risk patients who developed life-threatening infectious disease were related to general clinical condition, cancer control, bone marrow function, presence of clinical signs of infection, and social features. Careful risk assessment can allow safe recognition of low-risk patients with febrile neutropenia who can be discharged early and can be used to follow outpatient treatment programs to improve patients' quality of life as well as the use of economic resources.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1525-8165
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
645-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical and laboratory features predicting a favorable outcome and allowing early discharge in cancer patients with low-risk febrile neutropenia: a literature review.
pubmed:affiliation
Infectious Diseases Unit, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genova, Italy. eliocastagnola@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review