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Successful treatment of multiple Nocardia farcinica cerebral abscesses using an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service

Clinical Infection in Practice, 2020
Alberto San Francisco, Conor Bowman, Roxanna Gunny, Victoria Amedu, Catherine Cosgrove, Aodhan Breathnach, Ciara O'Connor, Angela Houston   +7 more
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Clinical outcomes in OPAT patients treated with ceftriaxone 4 g and ceftazidime 6 g extended interval dosing regimens.

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
Background New dosing regimens for ceftriaxone 4 g/24 hours and ceftazidime 3 g/12 hours are convenient for patients receiving OPAT. To date, these have not been clinically validated.
David Wareham, Mark Melzer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy in a Tertiary Hospital in France: A Description of Service Models and Costs

Antibiotics
Background/Objectives: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has been implemented throughout the world for the treatment of most infections.
Espérie Burnet, Alicia Le Bras, Guillaume Roucoux, Christian Dupont, Etienne Canouï, Clément Leclaire, Jérémie Zerbit, Pierre Régis Burgel, Clémence Martin, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Martin Duracinsky   +10 more
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Opat na trudne czasy? O rządach opata Marcina Rinkenberga w klasztorze Kanoników Regularnych w Żaganiu

Saeculum Christianum
Artykuł przedstawia osobę i działalność Marcina Rinkenberga – opata klasztoru kanoników regularnych reguły św. Augustyna w Żaganiu, który pełnił tę godność w latach 1468-1489. Był jednym z najdłużej urzędujących opatów żagańskiego klasztoru.
Joanna Karczewska
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Managing an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy team: challenges and solutions

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2014
Jenana Halilovic,1 Cinda L Christensen,2 Hien H Nguyen31University of the Pacific Thomas J Long School of Pharmacy, Stockton, CA, USA; 2Department of Pharmaceutical Services, University of California, Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA, USA; 3Division ...
Halilovic J, Christensen CL, Nguyen HH
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Impact of a nurse practitioner-led dedicated outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy clinic on patient outcomes and administrative workload: a retrospective cohort study

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
Background: Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) enhances patient safety, improves outcomes, and reduces healthcare costs by decreasing 30-day readmissions and adverse events.
Makoto Ibaraki, Zachary Gruss, Emily Wings, Jaclyn E. Geronimo, Janine M. Varnes, Joel A. Kammeyer   +5 more
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The OPAT opportunity for beta-lactam individualization

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology
Beta-lactam therapeutic drug monitoring has been growing in prevalence in the acute care hospital setting. Expansion of its use to outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy requires careful consideration of potential logistical and therapeutic barriers.
L. Childs‐Kean, Christina G. Rivera, V. Venugopalan, Madelyn Johnson, Erin F Barreto   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of Predictors Associated with Slow Clinical Response with Extension of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Background: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) provides a safe and effective alternative to prolonged hospitalization for patients with infectious diseases requiring elongated antimicrobial therapy.
Kristen McSweeney, Fang Yu Liu, Rachel Erdil, Majd Alsoubani, Tine Vindenes, Shira Doron, Kap Sum Foong   +6 more
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Patients referred to but not taken on to an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service: the impact of infection specialist advice on the assessment and clinical outcomes. [PDF]

JAC Antimicrob Resist
Rimbi M, Pybus S, Dodds S, White B, Ritchie N, Seaton RA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenges and drivers in the implementation of current practices in outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy: an international survey. [PDF]

JAC Antimicrob Resist
Mohammed SA, Roberts JA, Nicolás D, Aslan AT, Senok A, Aldabal L, Erku D, Nor ANM, Pollard J, Cotta M, Seaton RA, Gilchrist M, Sime FB.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source