Patients referred to but not taken on to an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service: the impact of infection specialist advice on the assessment and clinical outcomes
Mary Rimbi, Simon Pybus, Sophie Dodds, Beth White, Neil Ritchie, R Andrew Seaton · 2026
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Mary Rimbi and colleagues study in 2026 patients sent for home intravenous antibiotics who were instead guided to oral treatment. A large Glasgow service screened every referral with an infection specialist over three years. About three in ten referrals were not taken onto the home infusion service at all.
Among those turned away, five hundred seventeen people were advised to take oral antibiotics at home without special monitoring. Their infections ranged from bone and joint problems to bloodstream infections. Death and infection-related readmission within thirty days stayed low in that advised group. Counting the avoided infusion days shows specialist gatekeeping saved well over thirteen thousand treatment days across three years.
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| CREATOR | Mary Rimbi, Simon Pybus, Sophie Dodds, Beth White, Neil Ritchie, R Andrew Seaton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |