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Feasibility of Withholding Antibiotics in Selected Febrile Neutropenic Cancer Patients

DOI

89

Citations

30

References

2005

Year

Claudi Oude Nijhuis, Willem A. Kamps, Simon Daenen, Jourik A. Gietema, Winette T.A. van der Graaf, Harry J.M. Groen, Edo Vellenga, Els M. Ten Vergert, Karin M. Vermeulen, Hillie G. de Vries-Hospers,
Journal of Clinical Oncology

Abstract

This risk assessment model appears to identify febrile neutropenic patients at low risk for bacterial infection. Antibiotics can be withheld in well-defined neutropenic patients with fever.

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