Table 5. Resource utilisation.

	Intravenous arm n=60	Oral arm n=66
Approximate costs of febrile neutropenic episodes (£)
Hospitalisation	38 690	29 050
Antibiotics	11 690	2 060
Total	50 380	31 110
Mean, per episode	840	470
Approximate number of nursing hours ‘in direct patient contact’
Total	1258	733
Mean, per episode	21	11