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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
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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- © 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
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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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