Adult Patient Care Plan: Management of the Febrile Neutropenic Cancer Patient on an Outpatient Basis

Invasive infection may complicate the course of neutropenic cancer patients receiving intensive chemotherapy. The rate of complications is related to prognostic factors including the underlying malignant diagnosis, the state of responsiveness of the underlying disease to treatment, the dose-intensit...

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Main Authors: Coleman Rotstein, Eric J Bow, The Febrile Neutropenia Care Plan Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2000-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2000/509358