Updated good practice recommendations for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in adults and children in the UK

Ann L N Chapman; Sanjay Patel; Carolyne Horner; Helen Green; Achyut Guleri; Sara Hedderwick; Susan Snape; Julie Statham; Elizabeth Wilson; Mark Gilchrist; R Andrew Seaton

doi:10.1093/jacamr/dlz026

Updated good practice recommendations for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in adults and children in the UK

JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2019 Aug 26;1(2):dlz026. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlz026. eCollection 2019 Sep.

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¹ University Hospital Monklands, NHS Lanarkshire, Airdrie, UK.
² Southampton Children's Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
³ The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool, UK.
⁵ Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK.
⁶ Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham, UK.
⁷ South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK.
⁸ Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
⁹ Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
¹⁰ Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK.

Abstract

UK good practice recommendations for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) were published in 2012 and 2015 for adult and paediatric patients, respectively. Here we update the initial good practice recommendations in a combined document based on a further review of the OPAT literature and an extensive consultation process. As with the previous good practice recommendations, these updated recommendations are intended to provide pragmatic guidance for new and established OPAT services across a range of settings and to act as a set of quality indicators for service evaluation and quality improvement.

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