Validation of a new risk assessment model for predicting adverse events in children with fever and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Miedema, Karin G E ^a   De Bont, Eveline S J M ^a   Oude Nijhuis, Claudi S M ^a   Van Vliet, Danique ^a   Kamps, Willem A ^a   Tissing, Wim J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; HEMOGLOBIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BACTEREMIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79952358568     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.32.7767     Document Type: Letter

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