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Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2018 Feb 19;24(7):1322–1340. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.02.009

Table 9.

Clinical trials investigating the efficacy of a neutropenic diet in HCT patients

Intervention	Control	Outcomes (Intervention v Control)	References
Randomized controlled, prospective trial
Unrestricted diet (n=21)	Neutropenic diet (n=25)	No difference in infectious outcomes No difference in nutritional status	Lassiter, 2015¹²¹
Retrospective observational study
General hospital diet (n=363)	Neutropenic diet (n=363)	Fewer microbiologically confirmed infections in those receiving a general diet No difference in the incidence of microbiologically confirmed infections during neutropenia Higher rate of infections after resolution of neutropenia in those receiving a neutropenic diet	Trifilio, 2012¹²²