Project 19.1: Pediatric FN Definition 2012 Bern (NCT01683370): Prospective clinical observation of 39 pediatric patients treated with chemotherapy for cancer, with 43 episodes of fever in neutropenia

Abstract

The Pediatric FN Definition 2012 Bern (NCT01683370) study recruited patients from August 2012 to May 2013 in a single Center, the Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 39 patients were observed during 289 months of cumulative chemotherapy exposure time. 43 episodes of fever in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (FN) were diagnosed in 20 of the 39 patients. Information on FN episodes diagnosed is published here, based on >8000 temperature measurements and >1800 CBCs, together with exact relative time data. Data are irreversibly anonymized. In order not to compromise anonymization in this small sample of patients, information on gender, age, and malignancy diagnosis is not given. A key-file explains all variables. 39 further files contain the data of the single patients.