Cargando…

Enhancing Antibiotic Stewardship Team (AST) Efforts in Decreasing Inappropriate Vancomycin Usage in Neutropenic Fever (NF) Patients through Unit Based Pharmacist Intervention

BACKGROUND: The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines recommend adding vancomycin to the empiric treatment of NF in patients meeting specific criteria. After 48 hours, the guidelines recommend discontinuing vancomycin if resistant Gram-positi...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Perreault, Sarah, Amin, Kejal, Daleo, Stephen, Nguyen, Michelle Nadeau, McManus, Dayna, Topal, Jeffrey, Malinis, Maricar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631307/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1271