Table 3

Eligibility for care in the community (must answer yes to all of the criteria)

Criteria	Eligible	Not eligible
Disease status: leukaemia/lymphoma in remission (as per last bone marrow aspirate or solid tumour stable/responding(as per oncologist)	Yes	No
Low-risk disease group, not any of Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia induction or acute infant leukaemia, acute myeloid leukaemia, postallogenic haemopoietic stem cell transplant with 3 months or still on immunosuppression, congenital immunodeficiency, aplastic anaemia or Down syndrome Centres may have particular local concern about other specific diagnosis	Yes	No
No confirmed focus of infection requiring inpatient care*	Yes	No
No medical complication requiring inpatient care†	Yes	No
No severe sepsis on febrile neutropenia presentation‡	Yes	No
Availability of 24-hour caregiver	Yes	No
Good education of patient and carer on reportable symptoms	Yes	No
Availability of a telephone	Yes	No
Within 1 hour of treating hospital	Yes	No
Treating team preference	Yes	No
No previous history of non-compliance with medical care	Yes	No

Variations may consider excluding any patient who has received a fluid bolus or had a past unplanned admission to an intensive therapy unit (ITU). If well, presence of infiltrates on chest x-ray (CXR) may not be a contraindication to oral antibiotic therapy. At the time of writing, SARS-CoV-2–COVID-19-positive swabs should not necessarily be a contraindication to home care.
*Including, but not limited to, central venous access device site infection, cellulitis, perianal cellulitis or pain, significant pneumonia and infection with multidrug-resistant bacteria
†Including pain requiring intravenous analgesia, poor oral intake or excessive loss requiring intravenous hydration, respiratory distress or oxygen requirement
‡Severe sepsis includes any of (1) altered conscious state, (2) inotrope requirement, (3) fluid bolus requirement of >40 mL/kg or (4) respiratory support requirement.
CXR, chest X-ray.