Early Infectious Disease Outpatient Follow-up of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Patients Reduces 30-Day Readmission

Ena Saini, Mohammad Ali, Ping Du, Tonya Crook, John Zurlo

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Abstract

We conducted a case-control study to examine the association between outpatient infectious disease (ID) follow-up and risk of 30-day readmission in 384 patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy. ID outpatient follow-up within 2 weeks was associated with lower risk of all-cause 30-day readmission (adjusted odds ratio, 0.33; P =. 0001).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberciz073
Pages (from-to)865-868
Number of pages4
JournalClinical Infectious Diseases
Volume69
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 16 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Microbiology (medical)
  • Infectious Diseases

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