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Exploring the advancements of Australian OPAT

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2023
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in Australia has evolved from modest beginnings to a well-established health service with proven benefits in patient outcomes.
Tony Lai, Horst Thiele, Benjamin A. Rogers, Nadine Hillock, Suman Adhikari, Alexander McNamara, Matthew Rawlins   +6 more
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A bundle of the top 10 OPAT publications in 2024 [PDF]

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Objective: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is a mainstay of clinical infectious diseases practice, and OPAT-related publications continue to be prominent in journals.
Lindsey M. Childs-Kean, Sara F. Azimi, Alison M. Beieler, Laila Castellino, Sara C. Keller, Margaret Pertzborn, Alexandra Yamshchikov, Leah H. Yoke, Kathleen Young, Monica V. Mahoney   +9 more
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Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) versus inpatient care in the UK: a health economic assessment for six key diagnoses

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To compare costs associated with different models of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) delivery with costs of inpatient (IP) care across key infection groups managed via OPAT in the UK.Design A cost-minimisation design was ...
R A Seaton
exaly   +3 more sources

Clinical efficacy, cost analysis and patient acceptability of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT): a decade of Sheffield (UK) OPAT service [PDF]

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2018
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has evolved relatively slowly in the UK. This study describes the OPAT service based in a large UK teaching hospital in Sheffield, and examines the clinical efficacy, patient acceptability and costs saved over a 10-year period. Data on 3812 episodes of OPAT administered between January 2006 and January
Oyewole Christopher Durojaiye
exaly   +3 more sources

Heterogeneous OPAT regimens within and across infection diagnoses: Day-level medication use patterns among 2072 OPAT patients

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Background: Patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) are often medically complex and require carefully tailored treatments to address severe and often concomitant infections.
Madison Ponder, Renae Boerneke, Asher Schranz, Michael Swartwood, Claire Farel, Alan Kinlaw   +5 more
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Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in a safety-net hospital: Opportunities for improvement

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Background: Parkland Health is a 900-bed safety-net hospital that serves Dallas County, Texas. It has an OPAT program in which patients are managed via self-administration (S-OPAT), home-health/hemodialysis (H-OPAT), and skilled nursing facilities (SNF ...
Rory Bouzigard, Mark Arnold, Jacob Player, Norman Mang, Michael Lane, Trish Perl, Laila Castellino   +6 more
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Current Practices and Opportunities for Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy in Hospitals: A National Cross-Sectional Survey

Antibiotics, 2022
This nationwide study assessed how outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is organised by Dutch acute care hospitals, the barriers experienced, and how an OPAT program affects the way hospitals organised OPAT care. We systematically developed
Hester H. Stoorvogel, Marlies E. J. L. Hulscher, Heiman F. L. Wertheim, Ed P. F. Yzerman, Maarten Scholing, Jeroen A. Schouten, Jaap ten Oever   +6 more
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Facilitating OPAT in rural areas

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2023
A sizable portion of the United States’ population lives in a rural setting. Coupled with a limited number of infectious diseases providers, this has created a need for innovative practice models to deliver outpatient antimicrobial therapy and clinical monitoring in rural settings.
Meera Mehta, Molly Benning, Jessica E. Johnson, Keenan L. Ryan   +3 more
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Survey of pharmacists on their roles and perceptions of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy in the United States

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
Objectives: To define outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) clinical pharmacy practice across the United States, specifically pharmacist functions, design of pharmacist involvement, and to compare pharmacist training of those who practice in
Christina G. Rivera, Kristin C. Mara, Monica V. Mahoney, Keenan L. Ryan   +3 more
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Decreased hospital readmissions after programmatic strengthening of an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Objective: To determine whether a structured OPAT program supervised by an infectious disease physician and led by an OPAT nurse decreased hospital readmission rates and OPAT-related complications and whether it affected clinical cure.
Gaurav Agnihotri, Alan E. Gross, Minji Seok, Cheng Yu Yen, Farah Khan, Laura M. Ebbitt, Cassandra Gay, Susan C. Bleasdale, Monica K. Sikka, Andrew B. Trotter   +9 more
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