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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: PM R. 2017 Sep;9(9 Suppl 2):S324–S334. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2017.04.017

Table 5.

Significant Risk Factors Associated with Return to the Primary Acute Care Service in Different Cancer Populations

General Cancer (n=184) Asher et al.68
No score		 General Cancer (n=98) Guo et al.67
No score		 Bone Marrow Transplant (n=147) Fu et al.65
RTP BMT Score (up to 67.88% probability)		 Leukemia (n=255) Fu et al.64
RTP Leukemia Score (up to 49.52% probability)		 Lymphoma (n=127) Fu et al.66
No score		 Multiple Myeloma (n=122) Fu et al.63
No score
Platelet count < 43,000 (p<.01) Platelet count < 140,000 (p=.0132) Platelet count < 140,000 (p=.008)
Creatinine > 1.3 (p=.01) Creatinine level > 0.9 (p<.01) Creatinine > 1.3 (p=.0008)
Presence of antifungal agent (p<.05) Presence of antifungal (p=.1065) Presence of IV antifungal (p=.0878)
Presence of antiviral agent (p=.0501) Presence of antiviral (p=.0615)
Male Sex (p=.0003) Male Sex (p=.005)
Presence of Feed Tube/Modified Diet (p=.004) Presence of Tube Feeding (p=.03)
Motor FIM score < 35 (p=.001) Albumin < 3.5 (p=.04)
Presence of Foley Catheter (p=.02)		 Presence of antibacterial agent (p=.0519)
Leukemia, lymphoma or multiple myeloma diagnosis (p<.05)		 Peripheral blast > 0% (p=.0096) History of BMT (p=0.0473)
Presence of CVC (p=0.0573)

FIM=Functional Independence Measure, RTP=Return to Primary, BMT=Bone Marrow Transplant, IV=intravenous, CVC=Central Venous Catheter