Table 1.1Summary of audits and reviews of rates of neutropenic sepsis

Time periodNumber of casesAudit descriptionSource
05/2007 − 08/2007 71 admissions in 64 patientsAudit of all patients admitted with neutropenic sepsis to the seven hospitals of the South West London Cancer Network (population 1.4 million) Okera, at al., 2011
2 months 29 patientsSingle institution audit at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford of patients admitted either to A&E or haematology. Richardson, et al., 2009
1 year (2008) 128 episodes in 119 patientsSingle institution service improvement audit for an adult haematology department (no solid tumours) of episodes of neutropenic sepsis on the haematology ward. Van Vliet, et al., 2011
1 year (1/4/04 to 31/3/05) 762 episodes in 368 patients4 Paediatric Oncology Centres (averaging 74.7 episodes each) and 43 Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Units (averaging 13.5 episodes each) in London Dommett, et al., 2009
1/1/2009 to 31/3/2009 32 episodes3 hospitals of the North Wales Cancer NetworkNorth Wales Cancer Network Audit of neutropenic sepsis in chemotherapy patients from North Wales
6 months 22 patients admitted through A&EMainly haematology patients in an adult cancer unit/haemato-oncology unit.Submitted from survey
January 2008 to April 2009 42 episodesAudit of a North-London general hospital with a cancer unit and adult haemato-oncology unit using coding for neutropenia to select casesSubmitted from survey
08/2010 to 10/2010 33 patientsHaematology and oncology unit in East London - two other audits from this hospital displayed similar resultsSubmitted from survey
03/2011 to 06/2011 inclusive 92 cases in 84 patientsAdmissions to a Yorkshire Cancer centre for cancers treated there or in nearby cancer units (including some lymphoma but no other haemato-oncology)Submitted from survey

From: 1, Epidemiology and service provision of neutropenic sepsis in England and Wales

Cover of Neutropenic Sepsis: Prevention and Management of Neutropenic Sepsis in Cancer Patients
Neutropenic Sepsis: Prevention and Management of Neutropenic Sepsis in Cancer Patients.
NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 151.
National Collaborating Centre for Cancer (UK).
Copyright © National Collaborating Centre for Cancer, 2012.

NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.