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An evaluation of risk factors for readmission in patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), when required, is beneficial to patients and healthcare systems by reducing hospital length-of-stay, providing cost savings, and improving patient satisfaction.
Abby C. Bradley, Mary Joyce B. Wingler, Katherine L. Artman, Lori M. Ward, Jose Lucar   +4 more
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Cost evaluation of a nurse coordinated outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
A structured, nurse-driven outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program within an academic healthcare system was associated with reduced odds of 60-day unplanned OPAT readmissions and costs after hospital discharge.
Huiwen Deng, Alan E. Gross, Andrew B. Trotter, Daniel R. Touchette   +3 more
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The Community IntraVenous Antibiotic Study (CIVAS): a mixed methods evaluation of patient preferences for and cost effectiveness of different service models for delivering outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is widely used in most developed countries, providing considerable opportunities for improved cost savings.
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Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit

Antibiotics, 2022
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs encompass a range of healthcare processes aiming to treat infections at home, with the preferential use of the intravenous route.
Sara Ortonobes, Abel Mujal-Martínez, María de Castro Julve, Alba González-Sánchez, Rafael Jiménez-Pérez, Manuel Hernández-Ávila, Natalia De Alfonso, Ingrid Maye-Pérez, Teresa Valle-Delmás, Alba Rodríguez-Sánchez, Jessica Pino-García, Mònica Gómez-Valent   +11 more
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Best practices, implementation and challenges of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy: results of a worldwide survey among healthcare providers

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) is considered a patient-friendly and cost-effective practice. Patients in the OPAT service can be at risk for developing adverse events.
Moska Hassanzai, Fadime Adanç, Birgit C P Koch, Nelianne J Verkaik, Jakob van Oldenrijk, Jorg L de Bruin, Brenda C M de Winter, Hein A W van Onzenoort   +7 more
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Atom trapping with a thin magnetic film [PDF]

, 2006
We have created a $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate in a magnetic trapping potential produced by a hard disk platter written with a periodic pattern.
A. I. Sidorov, David E. Pritchard, Erik W. Streed, Gretchen K. Campbell, Jongchul Mun, Micah Boyd, Patrick Medley, Wolfgang Ketterle   +7 more
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Patient outcomes following home-based outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy and facility-based outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
In this systematic literature review and meta-analysis, we did not find a statistically significant difference in readmission and treatment failure rates between home-based and facility-based OPAT.
Shinya Hasegawa, Joseph Tholany, Heather Healy, Hiroyuki Suzuki   +3 more
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COLLATERAL BENEFITS OF DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH SELF-ADMINISTERED OUTPATIENT PARENTERAL ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY [PDF]

, 2018
Self-administered outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (S-OPAT) is a self-care treatment modality in which patients requiring extended courses of intravenous antibiotics are trained to safely self-administer treatment via an indwelling catheter in
Ganguly, Anisha P
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Diffraction of a Bose-Einstein condensate from a Magnetic Lattice on a Micro Chip [PDF]

, 2005
We experimentally study the diffraction of a Bose-Einstein condensate from a magnetic lattice, realized by a set of 372 parallel gold conductors which are micro fabricated on a silicon substrate. The conductors generate a periodic potential for the atoms
A. Günther, C. Zimmermann, D. Koelle, J. Fortágh, M. Kemmler, R. Folman, R. Kleiner, S. Kraft   +7 more
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Abstract Supplement

Pulmonary Medicine, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
 
Marzia Folegani, Semonti Nandi
wiley   +1 more source