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

• Main Authors: Rory Bouzigard (Author), Mark Arnold (Author), Jacob Player (Author), Norman Mang (Author), Michael Lane (Author), Trish Perl (Author), Laila Castellino (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

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...