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Quantifying and Financing the Non-billable Workload of Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) - a Model for Assessing and Supporting Staffing Needs for OPAT Programs.

Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy(OPAT) patients require complex multidisciplinary coordination outside billable visits. Predicting and funding sufficient staff capacity for OPAT programs is poorly understood. METHODS OPAT episodes at
Alexandra Yamshchikov, Colleen Burgoyne, Nurhan Calisir, Peter Goins, Timothy Heffer, Sonal S. Munsiff   +5 more
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Delivery of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) in an Ever-Changing National Health Service (UK): Benefits, Barriers, and Opportunities

Antibiotics
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is increasingly used to manage a broad range of infections, enabling patients to receive intravenous antibiotics safely outside inpatient settings.
O. Durojaiye, Charlotte Fiori, K. Cartwright   +2 more
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Practice guidelines for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in Germany

Infection
The practice guideline for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) aims to encourage broader adoption of OPAT into routine clinical practice in Germany.
L. Tometten, Ulrike Trost, Linda Jürgens, Stephan Achterberg, Lukas Arenz, Franz Audebert, M. Bickel, S. Dolff, Rika Draenert, Silke Ewering, Julia Fischer, A. Friedrichs, S. Hagel, A. Hennigs, Dagmar Horn, Caroline Isner, Elham Khatamzas, Christian Lanckohr, H. Lang, Hanna Matthews, B. Müller, Jennifer Neubert, Stefan Schmiedel, A. Simon, Phil Tepasse, F. Waldeck, C. Lehmann, Miriam Stegemann   +27 more
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Risk Factors for Hospital Readmission Following Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)

Infectious Disease and Therapy
A main goal of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is to streamline patient care and minimize time spent in the inpatient hospital setting. The identification of characteristics of patients who return to the hospital after being discharged on
M. Yousif, M. Geriak, L. Vasina, G. Sakoulas   +3 more
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OPAT: Optimized Allocation of Time-Dependent Tasks for Mobile Crowdsensing

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is an emerging paradigm that leverages pervasive smart terminals equipped with various embedded sensors to collect sensory data for wide applications.
Yang Huang, Honglong Chen, Guoqi Ma, Kai Lin, Zhichen Ni, Na Yan, Zhibo Wang   +6 more
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Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in Germany: insights and clinical outcomes from the K-APAT cohort study

Infection
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) offers several key advantages, including enhanced patient quality of life, reduced healthcare costs, and a potential reduction of nosocomial infections.
Kirsten Schmidt-Hellerau, Nina Baade, Nadine Scholten   +2 more
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