A Quality Initiative to Improve Postdischarge Care for Patients on Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients discharged from the hospital on outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) require close monitoring, including weekly blood tests and an early posthospital follow-up visit. However, because patients often receive OPAT in a separate healthcare system from where they received inpatient care, the OPAT plan often fails, with less than 75% of OPAT patients receiving the recommended laboratory monitoring. We sought to determine whether changing our inpatient OPAT documentation method would improve postdischarge care.

Methods

As a quality improvement initiative, we conducted 2 Plan-Do-Study-Act interventions on our OPAT documentation. Our first intervention was to create a standardized OPAT Progress Note, and our second was to turn that note into a Smart

SUBMITTER: Certain LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9251666 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature