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Factors associated with hospital length of stay among cancer patients with febrile neutropenia.
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- Interaction of mental comorbidity and physical multimorbidity predicts length-of-stay in medical inpatients.PloS one · 2023Article
- Iranian Nurses' Knowledge of Neutropenia and Their Practice for Infection Prevention in Patients with Cancer.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2021Article
- Association of patterns of multimorbidity with length of stay: A multinational observational study.Medicine · 2020Observational
- Febrile neutropenia management in pediatric cancer patients at Ethiopian Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital.BMC research notes · 2019Article
- Retrospective analysis of cancer patients admitted to a tertiary centre with suspected neutropenic sepsis: Are C-reactive protein and neutrophil count useful prognostic biomarkers?Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study sought to evaluate factors associated with hospital length of stay in cancer patients with febrile neutropenia.
methodsA prospective cohort study was performed at a single tertiary referral hospital in southern Brazil from October 2009 to August 2011. All adult cancer patients with febrile neutropenia admitted to the hematology ward were evaluated. Stepwise random-effects negative binomial regression was performed to identify risk factors for prolonged length of hospital stay.
resultsIn total, 307 cases of febrile neutropenia were evaluated. The overall median length of hospital stay was 16 days (interquartile range 18 days). According to multiple negative binomial regression analysis, hematologic neoplasms (P = 0.003), high-dose chemotherapy regimens (P<0.001), duration of neutropenia (P<0.001), and bloodstream infection involving Gram-negative multi-drug-resistant bacteria (P = 0.003) were positively associated with prolonged hospital length of stay in patients with febrile neutropenia. The condition index showed no evidence of multi-collinearity effect among the independent variables.
conclusionsHematologic neoplasms, high-dose chemotherapy regimens, prolonged periods of neutropenia, and bloodstream infection with Gram-negative multi-drug-resistant bacteria are predictors of prolonged length hospital of stay among adult cancer patients with febrile neutropenia.
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