Mortality Among Neutropenic Cancer Patients Within the United States: The Association With Hospital Volume.
Damien UrbanGavin E UrbanOfer MargalitUri AmitGalia JacobsonZvi SymonTalia GolanBoursi BenYaacov Richard LawrencePublished in: JCO oncology practice (2021)
Patients with neutropenia hospitalized in large-volume institutions have a substantially lower mortality compared with those hospitalized at low-volume institutions. Further study is required to validate our findings or overcome potential biases, understand mechanism, and investigate how smaller institutions can improve outcomes.