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Temperature limit defining fever, for definition of fever in neutropenia (FN), is single temperature \>=39.0°C measured in the ear by infrared tympanic thermometry. If clinically indicated, the treating physician is allowed to make the diagnosis of FN at lower temperatures.

Temperature limit defining fever, for definition of fever in neutropenia (FN), is single temperature \>=38.5°C measured in the ear by infrared tympanic thermometry. If clinically indicated, the treating physician is allowed to make the diagnosis of FN at lower temperatures.

Diagnosis of FN, correspondingly hospitalization and start of empirical intravenous broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy. Further treatment according to treating physician.

39.0°C temperature limit defining fever

38.5°C temperature limit defining fever

Roland A Ammann, MD

In a multi-center open-label cluster-randomized controlled parallel-group multiple crossover non-inferiority trial in children and adolescents up to 20 years diagnosed with cancer requiring chemotherapy, primarily the safety, and secondarily the efficacy and other endpoints, of a high (39.0°C) versus low (38.5°C) temperature limit defining fever (TLDF) for the diagnosis of fever in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (FN) is studied. Safety is assessed by the rate of safety relevant events per chemotherapy exposure time, a composite endpoint including serious medical complications and bacteremia during FN. Patients are repeatedly randomized (cluster: study site) to the high or the low TLDF every month, resulting in possible multiple crossovers in one patient. The high TLDF is declared not to be inferior regarding safety compared to the low TLDF if non-inferiority of the rate ratio of safety relevant events is proven, with a single-sided non-inferiority margin of 1.33, applying mixed Poisson regression.

SPOG 2015 FN Definition. A Multi-center Non-inferiority Trial on Safety of a High Versus Low Temperature Limit Defining Fever in Pediatric Patients With Cancer at Risk for Fever in Chemotherapy-induced Neutropenia

SPOG 2015 FN Definition. A Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group (SPOG) Initiated Multi-center Open-label Randomized Controlled Multiple Crossover Non-inferiority Trial on Safety of a High Versus Low Temperature Limit Defining Fever in Pediatric Patients With Cancer at Risk for Fever in Chemotherapy-induced Neutropenia (FN)

Risk prediction rules for clinically defined FN, clinically defined FN with bacteremia, with serious medical complication, and with safety relevant event during chemotherapy, all based on multivariate mixed Poisson regression (stepwise forward variable selection procedure; unit: predictor)

Risk prediction rules for bacteremia, for serious medical complication, and for safety relevant event during FN, all based on multivariate mixed logistic regression (stepwise forward variable selection procedure; unit: predictor)

Validation of published risk prediction rules for clinically defined FN, clinically defined FN with bacteremia, with serious medical complication, and with safety relevant event during chemotherapy (units: sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, area under receiver operating characteristic curve)

Validation of published risk prediction rules for bacteremia, for serious medical complication, and for safety relevant event during FN (units: sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, area under receiver operating characteristic curve)

Poisson rate: number of clinically defined FN with at least one SRE divided by the entire chemotherapy exposure time for each patient, estimated to be 1 year on average (Unit: FN per year of chemotherapy exposure time) SRE: Composite endpoint (serious medical complication AND/OR bacteremia), reached until the end of each individual FN episode (Unit: binary)

Times (hh:mm) of measurement of fever - telephone to study site - arrival at emergency department - prescription of antibiotics - start and end of first dose of i.v. antibiotics (assessed per FN episode by the responsible local PHO and in patient chart, reported per FN episode; unit: hours:minutes)

AE: clinically / microbiologically documented infection, unexplained fever, sepsis / severe sepsis / septic shock, relapse of primary infection (assessed in patient charts, reported per FN; unit:binary)

Only for currently active high TLDF: delay time between crossing low and high TLDF; delayed FN diagnosis (see 5.1.4) by high vs. low TLDF (assessed from patients charts, reported per FN; unit: hours:minutes)

Poisson rate: number of clinically defined FN divided by the entire chemotherapy exposure time for each patient, estimated to be 1 year on average (Unit: FN per year of chemotherapy exposure time)

Poisson rate: number of FN diagnosed at/above TLDF divided by the entire chemotherapy exposure time for each patient, estimated to be 1 year on average (Unit: FN per year of chemotherapy exposure time)

Poisson rate: number of FN diagnosed below TLDF divided by the entire chemotherapy exposure time for each patient, estimated to be 1 year on average (Unit: FN per year of chemotherapy exposure time)

. Duration of hospitalization, ICU treatment, i.v. antibiotics, p.o. antibiotics, any antibiotics, delay of chemotherapy for FN (unit: days)

Only for currently active high TLDF: Simultaneous and avoided FN diagnoses by high vs. low TLDF (assessed from patients charts, reported per FN; unit: binary)

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