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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 Obizo i jego legacje

Nasza Przeszłość, 1959
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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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Emergency department-initiated outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy in Taiwan: A retrospective cohort study on clinical outcomes and cost analysis

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
Background: ED-initiated outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) aims to reduce admissions and relieve ED boarding. In practice, however, OPAT may be used as a “middle-ground” alternative to oral therapy, complicating assessment of its true ...
Yu-Kai Chen, Ching-Tai Huang, Feng-Lin Wang, Yi-Ling Chan, Tien-Ming Chan, Tse-Hsuan Su   +5 more
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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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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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Healthcare utilization and outcomes of patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities on parenteral antimicrobial therapy

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Hospitalized patients are commonly discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) on outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT). In this study, 101 patients discharged to a SNF on OPAT required considerable post-hospital care coordination and ...
Madeline Langenstroer, Christopher Crnich, Sally A. Jolles, Jon P. Furuno, Brie N. Noble, Rosemary C. Bailey   +5 more
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[Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT): the Italian registry].

Le infezioni in medicina, 2002
In the early eighties, in the US the advantages (reduced costs, no hospitalisation trauma in children, no immobilization syndrome in elderly, reduction of nosocomial and acquired infections by multi-resistant organisms) of OPAT were identified and suitable therapeutic programs were established.
ESPOSITO, Silvano, Ianniello, Filomena, Noviello, Silvana, LEONE, SEBASTIANO, Ascione, Tiziana, Tice, Alan, Maiello, Angostino, de Lalla, Fausto, Girmenia, Corrado, Marranconi, Franco, Serrentino, Giuseppe, Iaccarino, Angello, Di Cianni, Ernesto   +12 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
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