Keeping Chemo Patients Away From Hospitals Is 'Come Home' ready for prime time?

Every time chemotherapy complications sent someone to an emergency room, which happens all too often, "they'd come out a little bit worse, each time just another step down in their quality of life." They'd sometimes contract other infections while waiting for hours for the cause of their fever or diarrhea to be diagnosed. And if admitted, they'd grow weaker and disoriented lying in a bed. The longer they wait for their first dose of antibiotics, the more likely they will become septic and end up in the intensive care unit, she said. If only she could keep them away from hospitals. So she and her 15-physician team at the New Mexico Cancer Center changed the way they practiced. In 2006, they initiated .... http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/Chemotherapy/61363?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-11-12&eun=g721819d0r&pos=0