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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
卷 26, 期 2, 页码 131-136出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2015.01.001
关键词
Home intravenous therapy; H-OPAT; S-OPAT; Self-administration; Complications; Hospital-in-home
The safety and efficacy of treatment of infectious endocarditis (IE) was evaluated within a program of hospitalin- home (HIH) based on self-administered outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (S-OPAT). IE episodes (n = 48 in 45 patients; 71% middle-aged males) were recruited into the HIH program between 1998 and 2012. Following treatment stabilization at the hospital they returned home for HIH in which a physician and/or a nurse supervised the S-OPAT. Safety and efficacy were evaluated asmortality, re-occurrence, and unexpected re-admission to hospital. Of the episodes of IE, 83.3% had comorbidities with a mean score of 2.3 on the Charlson index and 1.5 on the Profund index; 60.4% had pre-existing valve disease (58.6% having had surgical intervention); 8.3% of patients had suffered a previous IE episode; 62.5% of all episodes affected a native valve; 45.8% being mitral; 70.8% of infection derived from the community. In 75% of the episodes there was micro-organism growth, of which 83.3% were Gram positive. Overall duration of antibiotic treatment was 4.8 weeks; 60.4% of this time corresponding to HIH. Re-admission occurred in 12.5% of episodes of which 33.3% returned to HIH to complete the S-OPAT. No deaths occurred during HIH. One year after discharge, 2 patients had recurrence and 5 patients died, in 2 of whom previous IE as cause-of-death could not be excluded. In conclusion, the S-OPAT schedule of hospital-in-home is safe and efficacious in selected patients with IE. (C) 2015 European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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