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Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia
BACKGROUND: Several clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of fluconazole as empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia. Our objective was to assess the frequency and resource utilization associated with treatment failure in cancer patients given empiric flucona...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1702543/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17147804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-173 |
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author | Yu, Donghui T Seger, Diane L Peterson, Josh F Kumar, Ritesh N Bates, David W |
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description | BACKGROUND: Several clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of fluconazole as empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia. Our objective was to assess the frequency and resource utilization associated with treatment failure in cancer patients given empiric fluconazole antifungal therapy in routine inpatient care. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of cancer patients treated with oral or intravenous fluconazole between 7/97 and 6/01 in a tertiary care hospital. The final study cohort included cancer patients with neutropenia (an absolute neutrophil count below 500 cells/mm(3)) and fever (a temperature above 38°C or 100.4°F), who were receiving at least 96 hours of parenteral antibacterial therapy prior to initiating fluconazole. Patients' responses to empiric therapy were assessed by reviewing patient charts. RESULTS: Among 103 cancer admissions with fever and neutropenia, treatment failure after initiating empiric fluconazole antifungal therapy occurred in 41% (95% confidence interval (CI) 31% – 50%) of admissions. Patients with a diagnosis of hematological malignancy had increased risk of treatment failure (OR = 4.6, 95% CI 1.5 – 14.8). When treatment failure occurred the mean adjusted increases in length of stay and total costs were 7.4 days (95% CI 3.3 – 11.5) and $18,925 (95% CI 3,289 – 34,563), respectively. CONCLUSION: Treatment failure occurred in more than one-third of neutropenic cancer patients on fluconazole as empiric antifungal treatment for fever in routine clinical treatment. The increase in costs when treatment failure occurs is substantial. |
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spelling | pubmed-17025432006-12-16 Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia Yu, Donghui T Seger, Diane L Peterson, Josh F Kumar, Ritesh N Bates, David W BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: Several clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of fluconazole as empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia. Our objective was to assess the frequency and resource utilization associated with treatment failure in cancer patients given empiric fluconazole antifungal therapy in routine inpatient care. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of cancer patients treated with oral or intravenous fluconazole between 7/97 and 6/01 in a tertiary care hospital. The final study cohort included cancer patients with neutropenia (an absolute neutrophil count below 500 cells/mm(3)) and fever (a temperature above 38°C or 100.4°F), who were receiving at least 96 hours of parenteral antibacterial therapy prior to initiating fluconazole. Patients' responses to empiric therapy were assessed by reviewing patient charts. RESULTS: Among 103 cancer admissions with fever and neutropenia, treatment failure after initiating empiric fluconazole antifungal therapy occurred in 41% (95% confidence interval (CI) 31% – 50%) of admissions. Patients with a diagnosis of hematological malignancy had increased risk of treatment failure (OR = 4.6, 95% CI 1.5 – 14.8). When treatment failure occurred the mean adjusted increases in length of stay and total costs were 7.4 days (95% CI 3.3 – 11.5) and $18,925 (95% CI 3,289 – 34,563), respectively. CONCLUSION: Treatment failure occurred in more than one-third of neutropenic cancer patients on fluconazole as empiric antifungal treatment for fever in routine clinical treatment. The increase in costs when treatment failure occurs is substantial. BioMed Central 2006-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1702543/ /pubmed/17147804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-173 Text en Copyright © 2006 Yu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yu, Donghui T Seger, Diane L Peterson, Josh F Kumar, Ritesh N Bates, David W Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
title | Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
title_full | Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
title_fullStr | Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
title_full_unstemmed | Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
title_short | Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
title_sort | fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1702543/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17147804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-173 |
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