ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Successful Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in an OPAT Program: A Real-Life Multidisciplinary Circuit.
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- Practice guidelines for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in Germany.Infection · 2025Guideline
- Clinical and microbiological characteristics and outcomes of complicated urinary tract infections managed in a hospital-at-home programme: a prospective observational cohort study.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026Article
- Inpatient Cost Avoidance and Uncompensated Labor Associated With Different Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Care Models.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Delivery of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) in an Ever-Changing National Health Service (UK): Benefits, Barriers, and Opportunities.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Antibiotic Stability and Feasibility in Elastomeric Infusion Devices for OPAT: A Review of Current Evidence.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- A data-driven financial justification for an outpatient infectious diseases pharmacist.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
- A review of antimicrobial stability testing guidance for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy programmes: is it time for global harmonization of testing frameworks?JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Review
- Current practices and challenges of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy: a narrative review.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2024Review
- Improving antimicrobial treatment in terms of antimicrobial stewardship and health costs by an OPAT service.Infection · 2024Article
- Optimization of Therapy and the Risk of Probiotic Use during Antibiotherapy in Septic Critically Ill Patients: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Taking the route less traveled: on the way to COpAT.Therapeutic advances in infectious diseaseReview
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Abstract
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs encompass a range of healthcare processes aiming to treat infections at home, with the preferential use of the intravenous route. Although several barriers arise during the implementation of OPAT circuits, recent cumulative data have supported the effectiveness of these programs, demonstrating their application in a safe and cost-effective manner. Given that OPAT is evolving towards treating patients with higher complexity, a multidisciplinary team including physicians, pharmacists, and nursing staff should lead the program. The professionals involved require previous experience in infectious diseases treatment as well as in outpatient healthcare and self-administration. As we describe here, clinical pharmacists exert a key role in OPAT multidisciplinary teams. Their intervention is essential to optimize antimicrobial prescriptions through their participation in stewardship programs as well as to closely follow patients from a pharmacotherapeutic perspective. Moreover, pharmacists provide specialized counseling on antimicrobial treatment technical compounding. In fact, OPAT elaboration in sterile environments and pharmacy department clean rooms increases OPAT stability and safety, enhancing the quality of the program. In summary, building multidisciplinary teams with the involvement of clinical pharmacists improves the management of home-treated infections, promoting a safe self-administration and increasing OPAT patients' quality of life.
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