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Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs encompass a range of healthcare processes aiming to treat infections at home, with the preferential use of the intravenous route. Although several barriers arise during the implementation of OPAT circuits, recent cumulative data have suppor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9404975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11081124 |
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author | Ortonobes, Sara Mujal-Martínez, Abel de Castro Julve, María González-Sánchez, Alba Jiménez-Pérez, Rafael Hernández-Ávila, Manuel De Alfonso, Natalia Maye-Pérez, Ingrid Valle-Delmás, Teresa Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alba Pino-García, Jessica Gómez-Valent, Mònica |
author_facet | Ortonobes, Sara Mujal-Martínez, Abel de Castro Julve, María González-Sánchez, Alba Jiménez-Pérez, Rafael Hernández-Ávila, Manuel De Alfonso, Natalia Maye-Pérez, Ingrid Valle-Delmás, Teresa Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alba Pino-García, Jessica Gómez-Valent, Mònica |
author_sort | Ortonobes, Sara |
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description | Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs encompass a range of healthcare processes aiming to treat infections at home, with the preferential use of the intravenous route. Although several barriers arise during the implementation of OPAT circuits, recent cumulative data have supported the effectiveness of these programs, demonstrating their application in a safe and cost-effective manner. Given that OPAT is evolving towards treating patients with higher complexity, a multidisciplinary team including physicians, pharmacists, and nursing staff should lead the program. The professionals involved require previous experience in infectious diseases treatment as well as in outpatient healthcare and self-administration. As we describe here, clinical pharmacists exert a key role in OPAT multidisciplinary teams. Their intervention is essential to optimize antimicrobial prescriptions through their participation in stewardship programs as well as to closely follow patients from a pharmacotherapeutic perspective. Moreover, pharmacists provide specialized counseling on antimicrobial treatment technical compounding. In fact, OPAT elaboration in sterile environments and pharmacy department clean rooms increases OPAT stability and safety, enhancing the quality of the program. In summary, building multidisciplinary teams with the involvement of clinical pharmacists improves the management of home-treated infections, promoting a safe self-administration and increasing OPAT patients’ quality of life. |
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spelling | pubmed-94049752022-08-26 Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit Ortonobes, Sara Mujal-Martínez, Abel de Castro Julve, María González-Sánchez, Alba Jiménez-Pérez, Rafael Hernández-Ávila, Manuel De Alfonso, Natalia Maye-Pérez, Ingrid Valle-Delmás, Teresa Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alba Pino-García, Jessica Gómez-Valent, Mònica Antibiotics (Basel) Review Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs encompass a range of healthcare processes aiming to treat infections at home, with the preferential use of the intravenous route. Although several barriers arise during the implementation of OPAT circuits, recent cumulative data have supported the effectiveness of these programs, demonstrating their application in a safe and cost-effective manner. Given that OPAT is evolving towards treating patients with higher complexity, a multidisciplinary team including physicians, pharmacists, and nursing staff should lead the program. The professionals involved require previous experience in infectious diseases treatment as well as in outpatient healthcare and self-administration. As we describe here, clinical pharmacists exert a key role in OPAT multidisciplinary teams. Their intervention is essential to optimize antimicrobial prescriptions through their participation in stewardship programs as well as to closely follow patients from a pharmacotherapeutic perspective. Moreover, pharmacists provide specialized counseling on antimicrobial treatment technical compounding. In fact, OPAT elaboration in sterile environments and pharmacy department clean rooms increases OPAT stability and safety, enhancing the quality of the program. In summary, building multidisciplinary teams with the involvement of clinical pharmacists improves the management of home-treated infections, promoting a safe self-administration and increasing OPAT patients’ quality of life. MDPI 2022-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9404975/ /pubmed/36009993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11081124 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Ortonobes, Sara Mujal-Martínez, Abel de Castro Julve, María González-Sánchez, Alba Jiménez-Pérez, Rafael Hernández-Ávila, Manuel De Alfonso, Natalia Maye-Pérez, Ingrid Valle-Delmás, Teresa Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alba Pino-García, Jessica Gómez-Valent, Mònica Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit |
title | Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit |
title_full | Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit |
title_fullStr | Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit |
title_full_unstemmed | Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit |
title_short | Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit |
title_sort | successful integration of clinical pharmacists in an opat program: a real-life multidisciplinary circuit |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9404975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11081124 |
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