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Errors in antibiotic transitions between hospital and nursing home: How often do they occur?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2019

Drew T. Dickinson Open the ORCID record for Drew T. Dickinson [Opens in a new window] ,
Syma Rashid ,
Anastasiia Weiland ,
Thomas Tjoa ,
Diane S. Kim  and
Susan S. Huang
Drew T. Dickinson*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Syma Rashid
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Anastasiia Weiland
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Thomas Tjoa
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Diane S. Kim
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Susan S. Huang
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
*
Author for correspondence: Drew Dickinson, E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

We performed systematic review on 40 paired hospital and nursing home charts from a clinical trial to evaluate the fidelity of transitions of care among those discharged on antibiotics. We found that 30% of transitions included an inappropriate change to the patient’s antibiotic plan of care.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 12 , December 2019 , pp. 1416 - 1419
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© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. This study was presented in part as poster #326 at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Spring Conference on April 25, 2019, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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