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Being ‘at-home’ on outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT): a qualitative study of parents’ experiences of paediatric OPAT [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2019
ObjectiveTo better understand the factors that facilitate and hinder a positive experience of paediatric outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT).DesignQualitative study using semistructured interviews.SettingA dedicated paediatric consultant-led hospital-based, outreach OPAT service in England.ParticipantsParticipants were primarily parents ...
Bernie Carter, Debra Fisher-Smith, David Porter, Steven Lane, Matthew Peak, David Taylor-Robinson, Louise Bracken, Enitan Carrol   +7 more
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P13 Every patient who could have OPAT, should have OPAT—the importance of data

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2022
Abstract Background Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has a clear role to play in optimizing antimicrobial stewardship and is listed as one of the Department of Health's five options for antimicrobial prescribing decision options to focus therapy.
Williams, Steph, Bolton, Hannah, Nye, Rachel, Watson, Millie, Wood, Alli, Cole, Ann   +5 more
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Self-administered OPAT (S-OPAT) is a potential cost-effective equivalent option for uninsured patients requiring OPAT

Clinical Research In Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates, 2022
A clinical decision report using: Bhavan KP, Brown LS, Haley RW. Self-Administered Outpatient Antimicrobial Infusion by Uninsured Patients Discharged from a Safety-Net Hospital: A Propensity-Score-Balanced Retrospective Cohort Study. PLoS Med. 2015;12(12): e1001922.
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My patient needs home IV antibiotics–Now what? Assessing OPAT involvement at a Veterans’ Affairs hospital

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
Background: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) involves the administration of intravenous antimicrobial therapy outside the hospital. The literature suggests that inpatient providers are often unaware of OPAT programs and may not engage ...
Maddy Breeden, Elizabeth Scruggs, Payal Patel, Sarah Krein, Ronald Kendall, Andrea Starnes, Tracy Lopus   +6 more
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OPAT: outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy [PDF]

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020
Graphical Abstract.
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Impact of a Pharmacist-Managed Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service on Cost Savings and Clinical Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Background: Outpatient antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is managed by a variety of teams, but primarily through an infectious disease clinic. At our medical center, OPAT monitoring is performed telephonically by pharmacists through a collaborative practice ...
Taylor M. Epperson, Kiya K. Bennett, Katherine K. Kupiec, Kathy Speigel, Stephen B. Neely, Beth H. Resman-Targoff, Karen K. Kinney, Bryan P. White   +7 more
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Self-Administered Outpatient Antimicrobial Infusion by Uninsured Patients Discharged from a Safety-Net Hospital: A Propensity-Score-Balanced Retrospective Cohort Study.

PLoS Medicine, 2015
BackgroundOutpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is accepted as safe and effective for medically stable patients to complete intravenous (IV) antibiotics in an outpatient setting.
Kavita P Bhavan, L Steven Brown, Robert W Haley   +2 more
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OPATs: OmnibusP-value association tests [PDF]

Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2017
Combining statistical significances (P-values) from a set of single-locus association tests in genome-wide association studies is a proof-of-principle method for identifying disease-associated genomic segments, functional genes and biological pathways.
Chia-Wei Chen, Hsin-Chou Yang
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Design and protocol of the Buprenorphine plus Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (B-OPAT) study: a randomized clinical trial of integrated outpatient treatment of opioid use disorder and severe, injection-related infections

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2022
Introduction: A marked increase in hospitalizations for severe, injection-related infections (SIRI) has been associated with the opioid epidemic. Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is typically not offered to persons with opioid use disorder
Laura C. Fanucchi, Sean M. Murphy, Hilary Surratt, Shashi N. Kapadia, Sharon L. Walsh, James A. Grubbs, Alice C. Thornton, Paul Nuzzo, Michelle R. Lofwall   +8 more
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Outcomes among patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia enrolled in a postdischarge outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy program at an academic medical center

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
We compared patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia enrolled in outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy monitoring program (OPAT-MP) upon hospital discharge with patients not enrolled.
Deborah A. Theodore, E. Yoko Furuya, Eloise Austin, William G. Greendyke   +3 more
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