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Background. Non-inpatient parcnteral antibiotic therapy or outpatient and home parenteral antibiotic therapy (OHPAT) therapy for stable, immediately non-lifcthreatening infection is a standard of care in North America. In the UK and Ireland forntal OHPAT programmcs arc not well established. The reasons for these differences in practice arc unclear. Methods. A postal survey of 348 infection specialists (microbiologists and ID physicians) in the UK and Ireland was carried out in June 1999. Questions aimed to determine their experience with OHPAT and their views as to the barriers which may have prevented such a programmc in their Trust. Participants were also asked to list the 3 most appropriate infections which could be managed with OHPAT and finally were given four possible options for funding and clinical responsibility. Results. There was a rcsponsc rate of 44% at the time of writing. Only 21% had an established OHPAT programme although 60% had some experience. Of those who did not have a programntc 69% thought there was a detinitc need. Barriers to the development of an OHPAT programrne identified were small numbers of appropriate patients and fragmentation of patients throughou

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Author

M. Twagira; J. Games; M. Rogers; H. Panigrahi

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0163-4453)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)