drugset / Trial / NCT00107081

Low-risk Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer: Safety and Efficacy of Oral Antibiotics in an Outpatient Setting

NCT00107081 ↗

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether, in children with cancer presenting with fever in severe chemotherapy-induced neutropenia at low risk for medical complications, oral antibiotics in an outpatient setting after an initial phase of intravenous antibiotics and in-hospital observation for 8 to 22 hours, is not inferior as to safety and efficacy compared to continued intravenous antibiotics given in-hospital.

Timeline

Start
2004-01
Primary completion
2007-12
Completion
2007-12

Outcome

Mixed primary results

Stopped (Enrollment): “Accrual goal for interventional part not achievable”

paper non-inferiority was not proven for safety [27 of 27 (100%) vs. 33 of 34 (97%; 1 death) episodes; 95% upper confidence border, 6.7%; P = 0.11 PMID 22271702 ↗

paper non-inferiority was proven for efficacy [23 of 27 (85%) vs. 26 of 34 (76%) episodes; 95% upper confidence border, 9.4%; P = 0.045 PMID 22271702 ↗

Publications

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Amoxicillin Other / unclassified 65 mg/kg Oral
Subject Amoxicillin Other / unclassified 80 mg/kg Oral
Subject Ciprofloxacin Small molecule 25 mg/kg Oral
Subject Ciprofloxacin Small molecule 30 mg/kg Oral

Indications