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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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Autores principales: 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
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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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/).
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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
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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
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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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