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Low Use of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy for Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis in an Urban Hospital System

BACKGROUND: The opioid crisis in the United States has led to increasing hospitalizations for drug use-associated infective endocarditis (DUA-IE). Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), the preferred modality for intravenous antibiotics for infective endocarditis, has demonstrated simil...

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Autores principales: Ceniceros, Ashley G, Shridhar, Nupur, Fazzari, Melissa, Felsen, Uriel, Fox, Aaron D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7990064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33796596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab083