Low bacterial diet versus control diet to prevent infection in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy causing episodes of neutropenia

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  van Dalen, Elvira C ^a   Mank, Arno ^b   Leclercq, Edith ^a   Mulder, Renée L ^a   Davies, Michelle ^c   Kersten, Marie José ^b   van de Wetering, Marianne D ^a  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BEHAVIOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DIET; DIET RESTRICTION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LOW BACTERIAL DIET; MORTALITY; MOUTH HYGIENE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DIET THERAPY; MYCOSES; NEOPLASMS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEVER; HUMANS; MYCOSES; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84964318327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006247.pub3     Document Type: Review

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