Quantifying the Time to Administer Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy: A Missed Opportunity to Compensate for the Value of Infectious Diseases
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) relies on substantial uncompensated provider time. In this study of a large academic OPAT program, the median amount of unbilled OPAT management time was 27 minutes per week, per OPAT course. These data should inform benchmarks in pursuing novel payment approaches for OPAT.
Authors
- Asher J Schranz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-7717)
- Claire E. Farel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4678-7713)
- Madison Ponder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-7216)
- Renae Boerneke
- Angela Perhac
- Michael Swartwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-4133)
- Alan C. Kinlaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4279-8685)
- Teresa Oosterwyk
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- UNC Libraries
- Published
- 2025-05-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17615/p3rm-2m17
- Primary Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00