Marin H. Kollef

Association between time-to-antibiotics and clinical outcomes in neutropenic fever after hematopoietic stem cell transplant

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend empiric antibiotics within one hour for neutropenic fever, extrapolated primarily from sepsis literature. Whether modest variation in time-to-antibiotics (TTA) affects outcomes in antibiotic-naïve hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipien...