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. 2019 Aug 16;69(5):865-868.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz073.

Early Infectious Disease Outpatient Follow-up of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Patients Reduces 30-Day Readmission

Ena Saini  1 , Mohammad Ali  1 , Ping Du  1   2 , Tonya Crook  1 , John Zurlo  1
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Early Infectious Disease Outpatient Follow-up of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Patients Reduces 30-Day Readmission

Ena Saini et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

We conducted a case-control study to examine the association between outpatient infectious disease (ID) follow-up and risk of 30-day readmission in 384 patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy. ID outpatient follow-up within 2 weeks was associated with lower risk of all-cause 30-day readmission (adjusted odds ratio, 0.33; P = .0001).

Keywords: 30-day readmission; infectious disease follow-up; outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy; OPAT.

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