Patient-reported outcome measures in an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy program: a prospective cohort study
Andrea R Burch, Bruno Ledergerber, Martin Ringer, Annelies S Zinkernagel, Nadia Eberhard, Marisa B Kaelin, Barbara Hasse · 2024
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Andrea Burch and co-authors ask patients themselves how home intravenous antibiotic therapy felt. Their 2024 study follows a Swiss outpatient program, where people finish long antibiotic courses at home instead of in a ward. Health-related quality of life was surveyed before discharge and again one to two weeks after, using a shortened standard questionnaire plus satisfaction questions.
Programs like this are usually judged on safety and cost; the patient's own trajectory is rarer. Tracing the scores across the move home shows whether the freedom comes with hidden strain. The authors report the pattern for the Zurich cohort enrolled between 2020 and 2022.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andrea R Burch, Bruno Ledergerber, Martin Ringer, Annelies S Zinkernagel, Nadia Eberhard, Marisa B Kaelin, Barbara Hasse |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |