Effect of Outpatient Treatment of Febrile Neutropenia on the Risk Threshold for the Use of CSF in Patients with Cancer Treated with Chemotherapy

Outpatient treatment slightly decreases the risk threshold for FN at which prophylactic CSF becomes cost-effective. The limited economic effect of this strategy may be because the patients who were at greatest risk of complications had significantly longer lengths of stay and accounted for most of the hospitalization costs.