Prolonged outpatient parenteral antimicrobial treatment: frequency and evolution over a six-year period in a Swiss University Hospital
Despite the general trend towards shorter intravenous treatment courses in infectious diseases, our OPAT unit did not observe a decline in the use of prolonged intravenous antibiotic therapy between 2017 and 2022, suggesting that OPAT units will probably not see a decrease in their activities in the near future.
Authors
- Matthias L. Cavassini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0933-7833)
- Aline Munting (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2577-5912)
- José Damas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7724-6226)
- Lyne Arensdorff
Institutions
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- Centre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Lausanne (CH)
- University of Lausanne (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-10170-0
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.77
Funders
- Université de Lausanne