Background Early discharge hospital at home is a service that provides active treatment by
healthcare professionals in the patient's home for a condition that otherwise would require …

These good practice recommendations for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy
(OPAT) are an update to a previous consensus statement on OPAT in the UK published in …

A panel of experts was convened by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) to
update the 2004 clinical practice guideline on outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy …

Objectives We describe treatment failure rates by antibiotic duration for prosthetic joint
infection (PJI) managed with debridement, antibiotics and implant retention (DAIR). Methods …

Objectives We describe rates of success for two-stage revision of prosthetic joint infection
(PJI), including data on reimplantation microbiology. Methods We retrospectively collected …

Objectives Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is an effective treatment strategy
for a wide variety of infections as long as clinical risk is minimized by conforming to practice …

Background To better monitor patients on outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy
(OPAT), we need an improved understanding of risk factors for and timing of OPAT …

Joint replacement is safe, cost effective, 1 and widely undertaken. Most prosthetic joint
replacements are hips and knees; more than 130 000 people underwent such procedures in …

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has evolved relatively slowly in the UK.
This study describes the OPAT service based in a large UK teaching hospital in Sheffield …

Background Long-acting lipoglycopeptides (laLGPs) are FDA approved only for acute
bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSIs). However, these antibiotics show …