Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
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Support Care Cancer · Aug 2010
ReviewWhat do palliative care patients and their relatives think about research in palliative care?-a systematic review.
Research in palliative care patients has been controversial and is often challenging. It is important to know the views of potentially eligible patients themselves in order to determine the appropriateness of research in the palliative care population and to develop realistic studies that are practical and achievable in this population. This systematic review aims to identify the views of palliative care patients and their families towards research, the factors that are important when considering participation, and the types of research trial they would support or reject. ⋯ Research to date in the palliative care setting has suggested that patients are interested in participating in research and may actually benefit from doing so.
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Support Care Cancer · Aug 2010
Utility of peripheral blood cultures in bacteremic pediatric cancer patients with a central line.
The utility of peripheral blood cultures in febrile neutropenic children with cancer and central venous catheters (CVC) is controversial. Our primary objective was to describe true bloodstream infections detected only by peripheral culture. Our secondary objectives were to describe true bloodstream infections detected only by CVC culture and to describe probable contaminants detected in both types of blood cultures. ⋯ True bloodstream infections frequently are only detected in the peripheral culture. These data support continuation of the practice of routine peripheral cultures in addition to CVC cultures at the onset of fever for children with cancer who are not already receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics.