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Risk Factors Associated With Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Program Failure Among Intravenous Drug Users

Sixty-one percent of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) who received outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) failed treatment. Hospital readmission and adverse drug reactions occurred in 25%. By multivariate analysis, time since last IVDU was associated with failure (P = .04). Intravenous drug u...

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Autores principales: Buehrle, Deanna J., Shields, Ryan K., Shah, Neel, Shoff, Christopher, Sheridan, Kathleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx102