Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in a safety-net hospital: Opportunities for improvement

Background: Parkland Health is a 900-bed safety-net hospital that serves Dallas County, Texas. It has an OPAT program in which patients are managed via self-administration (S-OPAT), home-health/hemodialysis (H-OPAT), and skilled nursing facilities (SNF-OPAT). We evaluated the reasons for unscheduled...

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Main Authors: Rory Bouzigard, Mark Arnold, Jacob Player, Norman Mang, Michael Lane, Trish Perl, Laila Castellino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-06-01
Series:Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2732494X23003649/type/journal_article