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Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Serial Readmissions and High Utilizers: Drilling Down on Readmission Following Discharge on Intravenous Antibiotics

BACKGROUND: OPAT discharges (d/c’s) are at high risk for hospital readmission. We observed that a subgroup of OPAT patients (patients) had multiple 30 day readmissions (30DRs) and wanted to define both global and global minus serial readmitter (SR) or high utilizer (HU) 30DR rates to improve the d/c...

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Autores principales: Andrews, Mary-Margaret, Gallagher, Megan, Gentry, Mary
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/PMC5631210/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.792