Saini E, Ali M, Du P, Crook T, Zurlo J. Early Infectious Disease Outpatient Follow-up of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Patients Reduces 30-Day Readmission.
Clin Infect Dis 2020;
69:865-868. [PMID:
30721936 DOI:
10.1093/cid/ciz073]
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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).
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