Self-Administered Outpatient Antimicrobial Infusion by Uninsured Patients Discharged from a Safety-Net Hospital: A Propensity-Score-Balanced Retrospective Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is accepted as safe and effective for medically stable patients to complete intravenous (IV) antibiotics in an outpatient setting. Since, however, uninsured patients in the United States generally cannot afford OPAT, safety-net hospitals...

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Autores principales: Bhavan, Kavita P., Brown, L. Steven, Haley, Robert W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4686020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26671467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001922

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4686020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26671467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001922

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