ASH Clinical News September 2015 | Page 51

CLINICAL NEWS Literature Scan New and noteworthy research from the medical literature landscape Can Shorter Time to Antibiotic Administration Improve Outcomes in Febrile Neutropenia? ment triage desk to alert personnel June 2012 and June 2013 were included A new protocol consisting of “relatively a median of 81 minutes – nine minutes in the study. Study participants’ time to simple interventions” speeds time to inishorter than the target TTA of 90 minutes • Creation of a FN chief complaint catantibiotic therapy and outcomes were tial receipt of antibiotic therapy for cancer – compared with historical and direct egory and a standardized order set in compared with a historical cohort of patients experiencing febrile neutropenia admission cohorts (235 minutes and 169 the emergency medical record (EMR) minutes, respectively; p<0.0001). patients who presented to the Cleveland (FN), according to results from a report to eliminate variability in treatment Clinic emergency department between recently published in the Journal of OncolMore than half (57%) of the FNP February 2010 and May 2012, as well as ogy Practice. Patients treated through this patients received antibiotics within 90 • Antibiotic administration before with patients who were directly admitted new protocol also had a shorter time to minutes and almost one-third (32%) co