Antiviral Prescribing Among Patients at an Ambulatory Cancer Center With Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza.
Open Forum Infect Dis
; 10(5): ofad254, 2023 May.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37250175
ABSTRACT
Among 133 cancer outpatients diagnosed with influenza between 2016 and 2018, 110 (83%) were prescribed oseltamivir. Among 109 with a known symptom onset date, 53% presented for care and 31% were prescribed oseltamivir within 48â
hours. Patient/provider education and rapid diagnostics are needed to improve early oseltamivir use among cancer patients with influenza.
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Open Forum Infect Dis
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2023
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