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The Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer risk index: A multinational scoring system for identifying low-risk febrile neutropenic cancer patients.
TLDR
The risk index accurately identifies patients at low risk for complications and may be used to select patients for testing therapeutic strategies that may be more convenient or cost-effective.
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Management of febrile neutropaenia: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Management of febrile neutropenia: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines J. de Naurois, I. Novitzky-Basso, M. J. Gill, F. Marti Marti, M. H. Cullen & F. Roila On behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working…
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Nephrotoxicity induced by cancer chemotherapy with special emphasis on cisplatin toxicity.
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Bacteraemia in febrile neutropenic cancer patients.
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Efficacy of amphotericin B encapsulated in liposomes (AmBisome) in the treatment of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised patients.
TLDR
It is concluded that AmBisome is an effective antifungal agent in a majority of patients with invasive or superficial fungal infections.
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Management of fever in neutropenic patients with different risks of complications.
  • J. Klastersky
  • Medicine
    Clinical infectious diseases : an official…
  • 15 July 2004
TLDR
Risk stratification of febrile neutropenic patients can have important implications in terms of management and antimicrobial therapy with coverage against gram-negative organisms should always be provided because of the significant mortality associated with these infections.
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Outpatient oral antibiotics for febrile neutropenic cancer patients using a score predictive for complications.
TLDR
This study shows that oral therapy followed by early discharge was feasible in a small but significant proportion of patients selected by a strategy combining predicted low risk and medical and nonmedical criteria.
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Streptococcal and enterococcal bacteremia in patients with cancer.
TLDR
Eighty-two episodes of bacteremia due to streptococci (including the genus Enterococcus) in 78 patients hospitalized at Institut Jules Bordet between 1986 and 1988 were reviewed and no relation between peak or trough serum bactericidal titers and outcome could be demonstrated.
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How to optimize physicians' communication skills in cancer care: results of a randomized study assessing the usefulness of posttraining consolidation workshops.
TLDR
Consolidation workshops further improve a communication skills training program's efficacy and facilitate the transfer of acquired skills to clinical practice.
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Endotracheally administered gentamicin for the prevention of infections of the respiratory tract in patients with tracheostomy: a double-blind study.
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Endotracheal administration of gentamicin has been compared with saline injections in a double-blind study of 85 patients admitted to a neurosurgical unit with tracheostomy and reduced significantly the incidence of colonization of the tracheal secretions by Gram-negative rods.
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