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Evaluation of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy at a Veterans Affairs Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Emily Sydnor Spivak ,
Brian Kendall ,
Patricia Orlando ,
Christian Perez ,
Marina De Amorim ,
Matthew Samore ,
Andrew T. Pavia  and
Adam L. Hersh
Emily Sydnor Spivak*
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health System, Salt Lake City, Utah Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Brian Kendall
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health System, Salt Lake City, Utah Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Patricia Orlando
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health System, Salt Lake City, Utah Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, Utah
Christian Perez
Affiliation:
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Marina De Amorim
Affiliation:
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Matthew Samore
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health System, Salt Lake City, Utah Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Andrew T. Pavia
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Adam L. Hersh
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
*
Address correspondence to Emily Sydnor Spivak, MD, MHS, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, Rm 4B319, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

We reviewed outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center to identify opportunities for antimicrobial stewardship intervention. A definite or possible modification would have been recommended in 60% of courses. Forty-one percent of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy courses were potentially avoidable, including 22% involving infectious diseases consultation.

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36(9):1103–1105

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 9 , September 2015 , pp. 1103 - 1105
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

Presented in part: IDWeek 2014; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 11, 2014 (Abstract 1297).

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