Assessment of risk factors associated with outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy complications

• Main Authors: Christina Kaul (Author), Jenny Yang (Author), Matthew Haller (Author), Sadie Solomon (Author), Yaojie Wang (Author), Rong Wu (Author), Yu Meng (Author), Robert Pitts (Author), Michael Phillips (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is used in the outpatient setting to treat infectious conditions that require a prolonged course of antimicrobials. OPAT has been shown to decrease length of hospital stay and healthcare costs without compromising patient care and has be...