Managing an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy team: challenges and solutions

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs should strive to deliver safe, cost effective, and high quality care. One of the keys to developing and sustaining a high quality OPAT program is to understand the common challenges or barriers to OPAT delivery. We review the most common ch...

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Autores principales: Halilovic, Jenana, Christensen, Cinda L, Nguyen, Hien H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4069209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24971015
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S48906
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description Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs should strive to deliver safe, cost effective, and high quality care. One of the keys to developing and sustaining a high quality OPAT program is to understand the common challenges or barriers to OPAT delivery. We review the most common challenges to starting and managing an OPAT program and give practical advice on addressing these issues.
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spelling pubmed-40692092014-06-26 Managing an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy team: challenges and solutions Halilovic, Jenana Christensen, Cinda L Nguyen, Hien H Ther Clin Risk Manag Review Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs should strive to deliver safe, cost effective, and high quality care. One of the keys to developing and sustaining a high quality OPAT program is to understand the common challenges or barriers to OPAT delivery. We review the most common challenges to starting and managing an OPAT program and give practical advice on addressing these issues. Dove Medical Press 2014-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4069209/ /pubmed/24971015 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S48906 Text en © 2014 Halilovic et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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