A Prospective, Multicentric Scoring System to Predict Mortality in Febrile Neutropenic Children With Cancer.

The article focuses on a multicentric prospective study that evaluated a scoring system for assessing the risk of mortality for children with neutropenia and fever. Several mortality-related risk factors were identified through a multivariate analysis, such as associated comorbidity and advanced stage of underlying malignant disease. The results indicate that the sensitivity of the scoring system was 100%.