Predicting Bacteremia in Children With Cancer and Fever in Chemotherapy-induced Neutropenia
- 1 July 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 30 (7), e114-e119
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e318215a290
Abstract
To develop a score predicting the risk of bacteremia in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia (FN), and to evaluate its performanceKeywords
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