3 Steps Toward Preventing Infections During Cancer Treatment
Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients
Information for Health Care Providers
Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Oncology Settings
Cost of Cancer-Related Neutropenia or Fever Hospitalizations, United States, 2012
American Journal of Oncology Nursing
Preventing Infections During Cancer Treatment: Development of an Interactive Patient Education Website
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, August 2014
Tune in to Safe Healthcare: A CDC Webinar Series
Lessons from an Outbreak Investigation: Improving Medication Preparation, Use, and Other Infection Control Practices in Outpatient Oncology Clinics (scroll down to Past Webinars to find this webinar)
Provider-targeted infographics on neutropenia:
Oncology Providers: Take a Stand Against Chemotherapy's Deadliest Side Effect-Neutropenia
Oncology Providers: Your Patients May Not Understand Their Risk of Infection
Materials for Healthcare Providers
Educational materials created to help raise awareness about the importance of preventing infections in cancer patients.
What you Need to Know: Neutropenia and Risk for Infection
Top 5 Things to Know about Neutropenia
Cancer, Infection and Sepsis Fact Sheet
CDC's Website for Cancer Patients, Caregivers and Providers
Cancer Caregivers: A Chemo Side effect You Should Know About: Neutropenia
Fact Sheet: 3 Steps Toward Preventing Infection During Cancer Treatment
This program and its content were developed as part of the Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients (PICP) program. PICP is a comprehensive initiative led by CDC and the CDC Foundation to reduce infections in cancer patients.
The simulation was Developed by Kognito in collaboration with the CDC Foundation. The simulation is powered by the Kognito proprietary simulation platform and methodology (“Kognito IP”). All rights in Kognito IP reserved. © 2018 Kognito Solutions, LLC.
This simulation was made possible through a CDC Foundation partnership with, and funding from, Amgen. As part of the partnership, the CDC Foundation considered oncology expertise provided by Amgen. Learn more about the program at cdcfoundation.org/what/program/preventing-infections-cancer-patients. Learn more about CDC's work to prevent infections in cancer patients at cdc.gov/cancer/preventinfections.