Health-Related Quality of Life in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

Sara C Keller; Deborah Williams; Mayo Levering; Sara E Cosgrove

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofy143

Health-Related Quality of Life in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Jun 20;5(7):ofy143. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy143. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Authors

Sara C Keller^{1

2}, Deborah Williams³, Mayo Levering², Sara E Cosgrove^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine.
² Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Baltimore, Maryland.

Abstract

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has not been well characterized in the United States. In an OPAT cohort, the short-form-12's median physical component score and mental component score were 40.3 and 54.4, respectively. HRQoL measures could be helpful in studies of OPAT cost-effectiveness.

Keywords: OPAT; SF-12; cost-effectiveness; health-related quality of life.