Clinical Predictors of Bacteremia Outcome After Initial Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy in Patients with Hematological Malignancies: A Retrospective Analysis.

We found that Pitt score with a cut-off of 2.5 was a reliable predictor for mortality within 28 days in HM bacteremia cases. Impaired mental status and elevated temperature exceeding 38.6°C as well as a procalcitonin (PCT) level over 8.24 ng/mL on d3 after antimicrobial treatment were identified as predictive risk factors to carbapenem resistance.