Table 6. Multinational association for supportive care in cancer scoring system for the proposed risk index for identifying low-risk febrile neutropenic patients (Klastersky et al, 2000).

Characteristic	Score
Burden of illness: no or mild symptomsa	5
No hypotension	5
No chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4
Solid tumour or no previous fungal infection	4
No dehydration	3
Burden of illness: moderate symptomsa	3
Outpatient status	3
Age < 60 years	2

^aPoints attributable to burden of illness are not cumulative. The maximum theoretical score is therefore 26. The authors used a threshold of ⩾21 points to define ‘low-risk’.