Ana Mendieta, Ligia Rios Lopez, Maria Vargas Arteaga, Essy Maradiegue, Walter Delgadillo Arone, Carlos Rueda Bazalar, Alexis Holguin, Carlos Santillan Salas, Ivan Maza, Maysam Homsi, Frankly Farias Barrios, Claudia Assayag, Liliana Vásquez, Claudia Pascual, Miguela Caniza
OBJECTIVE: The DoTT (Decreasing Time to Therapy) project aimed to minimize the interval between fever onset and medical interventions for children with febrile neutropenia. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of implementing the DoTT project on the hospital time to antibiotic (TTA) and patient time to arrival (PTA) at the hospital in children with febrile neutropenia admitted to the emergency department. METHODS: The DoTT project was implemented at a Peruvian hospital and followed the World Health Organization (WHO) multimodal improvement strategy model...
2023: Pan American Journal of Public Health