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The risk of such infection in the absence of severe neutropenia (absolute neutrophil count\u2009\u2265\u2009500\/\u03bcL) is not well established and a validated prediction model for blood stream infection (BSI) risk offers clinical usefulness.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title><jats:p>A 6\u2010site retrospective external validation was conducted using a previously published risk prediction model for BSI in febrile pediatric oncology patients without severe neutropenia: the Esbenshade\/Vanderbilt (EsVan) model. A reduced model (EsVan2) excluding 2 less clinically reliable variables also was created using the initial EsVan model derivative cohort, and was validated using all 5 external validation cohorts. One data set was used only in sensitivity analyses due to missing some variables.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title><jats:p>From the 5 primary data sets, there were a total of 1197 febrile episodes and 76 episodes of bacteremia. The overall C statistic for predicting bacteremia was 0.695, with a calibration slope of 0.50 for the original model and a calibration slope of 1.0 when recalibration was applied to the model. The model performed better in predicting high\u2010risk bacteremia (gram\u2010negative or <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic> infection) versus BSI alone, with a C statistic of 0.801 and a calibration slope of 0.65. 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