Community hospital based OPAT services
Abstract:
An outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy team from a Veterans Affairs facility managed patients discharged from their own facility and neighboring community hospitals. There were no significant differences in adverse outcomes between the groups, but a majority of regimens were modified from those initially proposed by community providers.
Reference:Tiemann AR, Guastadisegni JM, Kouma MA, Kelly KC, Arasaratnam RJ, Storey DF. We’ll take it from here: Veterans Affairs OPAT management of home IV therapy initiated at community hospitals. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023 Jul 6;3(1):e197. doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.476. PMID: 38028919; PMCID: PMC10654944.