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New trends in patient management: risk-based therapy for febrile patients with neutropenia
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. –, 1999
Abstract
Standard management of febrile neutropenia includes the prompt administration of empirical, broad-spectrum, parenteral antibiotic therapy. This is generally done in a hospital-based setting. Although effective (overall survival of >90%), such therapy leads to prolonged hospitalization, excessive …
Keywords
- Administration
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
- NCBI
- NLM
- MEDLINE
- review
- humans
- pubmed abstract
- nih
- national institutes of health
- national library of medicine
- prognosis
- female
- male
- anti-bacterial agents / administration & dosage*
- risk assessment
- bacterial infections / complications
- bacterial infections / drug therapy*
- fever / prevention & control*
- neutropenia / prevention & control*
- patient selection
- oral
- pmid:10530438
- doi:10.1086/598624
- k v rolston
- ambulatory care / trends*
- fever / complications
- neoplasms / complications
- neutropenia / complications
How to cite
Rolston KV. (1999). New trends in patient management: risk-based therapy for febrile patients with neutropenia. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 29(3), –. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10530438
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