"Better at home": Mixed methods report of intricacies in pediatric febrile neutropenia management.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many febrile neutropenia (FN) episodes are low risk (LR) for severe outcomes and can safely receive less aggressive management and early hospital discharge. Validated risk tools are recommended by the Children's Oncology Group to identify LR FN episodes. However, the complex dynamics of early hospital discharge and burdens faced by caregivers associated with the FN episode have been inadequately described.

Methods

An adapted quality-of-life (QoL) survey instrument was administered by a convergent mixed methods design; qualitative and quantitative data from two sources, the medical record and the mixed methods survey instrument, were independently analyzed prior to linkage and integration. Code book was informed by conceptual framework; open coding was used. Mixe

SUBMITTER: Smeallie ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952020 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature