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For patients with neutopenic fever, how does oral administration of antibiotics compare to IV administration at preventing death?

Vidal L, et al. Oral versus intravenous antibiotic treatment for febrile neutropenia in cancer patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004 Oct 18;(4):CD003992.
PMID: 15495074

Systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing oral and IV delivery of antibiotics.
From the Pubmed record, use Find it @ Emory to go to the fulltext at Wiley Interscience. At the Wiley site, you'll have to paste the title of the review to pull it up.
Check out the Analyses section of the review to see tables comparing the data related to various clinical outcomes, including mortality.