Characteristics Associated with In-Hospital Death among Commercially Insured Decedents with Cancer.

Background: A majority of patients with poor-prognosis cancer express a preference for in-home death; however, in-hospital deaths are common.

Objective: We sought to identify characteristics associated with in-hospital death.

Design: Case series.

Health care institutional charges associated with ambulatory bloodstream infections in pediatric oncology and stem cell transplant patients.

Background: The impact of ambulatory bloodstream infections (Amb-BSIs) in pediatric oncology and stem cell transplant (PO/SCT) patients is poorly understood, although a large portion of their treatment increasingly occurs in this setting. This study aimed to understand the economic impact and length of stay (LOS) associated with these infections.

Procedure: Charges and LOS were retrospectively collected and analyzed for Amb-BSI events leading to a hospital admission between 2012 and 2013 in a tertiary, university-affiliated hospital.