Multiday corticosteroids in cancer chemotherapy delay the diagnosis of and antimicrobial administration for febrile neutropenia: a double-center retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Medical staff should promptly administer antimicrobials to patients with febrile neutropenia (FN) to decrease the mortality related to cancer chemotherapy. Corticosteroids, which are used in cancer chemotherapy, have a fever-suppressive effect. This effect could lead to a blunt fever res...

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Autores principales: Uda, Hiroki, Suga, Yukio, Toriba, Eriko, Staub, Angelina Yukiko, Shimada, Tsutomu, Sai, Yoshimichi, Kawahara, Masami, Matsusita, Ryo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30766727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40780-018-0130-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30766727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40780-018-0130-2

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