Low prevalence of complications in severe neutropenic children with cancer in the unprotected environment of an overnight camp
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The high risk of infection and other complications in severely neutropenic pediatric oncology patients receiving chemotherapy has led to development of a variety of preventive measures including isolation and diet restrictions. In order to examine the potential impact of these measures, we evaluated the outcomes of such patients attending a recreational summer camp. METHODS: We collected data on all children who attended an overnight summer camp for children with cancer during the years 1999-2004, and who were either severely neutropenic or at a high-intensity phase of chemotherapy. Outcome measures included fever, bleeding, hospitalization, and clinical or laboratory evidence of infection. The observation period included both, the 2-week camp experience and 30 days post-camp. RESULTS: The study group was comprised of 34 patients. Although nine (24%) were hospitalized for management of fever and neutropenia, only one patient had clinical or culture-positive evidence of an invasive infectious agent. No bleeding episode was recorded and most patients attended all camp activities. CONCLUSIONS: Our results support the safety and feasibility of severely neutropenic patients with cancer to attend the non-isolated, non-sterile environment of a summer camp. These findings may be applicable to school and other social settings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".