Recommendations

Document Overview

Design and created by Guideline Central in participation with the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Central Venous Catheter Care for the Patient With Cancer

American Society of Clinical Oncology

Publication Date: Mar 4, 2013

Page Last Updated: May 5, 2026

Document Overview

Document Title: Central Venous Catheter Care for the Patient With Cancer

Authoring Society: American Society of Clinical Oncology

Document Publication Date: Mar 4, 2013

Page Last Reviewed/Updated: May 5, 2026

Document Type: Guideline

Country of Publication: United States

Full Text Freely Available: Yes

Full Text Guideline: ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/jco.2012.45.5733

Source Citation: DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.45.5733 Journal of Clinical Oncology 31, no. 10 (April 01, 2013) 1357-1370.

Supplemental Implementation Resources

Document Scope, Criteria, and Use Cases

Scope: Management, Prevention

Keywords: Catheter-related infection, Catheter-related thrombosis, Central Venous Catheter, cancer

Target Patient Population: adult and pediatric patients with cancer

Target Provider Population: Medical oncologists/hematologists, nurses, interventional radiologists, surgeons, infectious disease specialists

Inclusion Criteria: Adolescent, Adult, Child, Older Adult

Health Care Settings: Hospital

Intended Users: Epidemiology/Infection Prevention, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physician, Physician Assistant

Recommendation Development Processes & Methodology

Supplemental Methodology Resource: Data Supplement

Number of Source Documents: 144

Literature Search Start Date: Tuesday, January 1, 1980

Literature Search End Date: Sunday, January 1, 2012

Includes peer/external review process?: Yes

Includes public comment process?: Yes

Methodologist involvement?: Yes

Patient involvement?: No

Includes multi-disciplinary group?: Yes

Includes systematic review?: Yes

Grades quality of strength of evidence?: No

Grades quality of strength of recommendation?: No

Discloses funding source?: Yes

Discloses conflicts of interest?: No

Includes benefits/harms analysis with recommendations?: Yes