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

Drew T Dickinson; Syma Rashid; Anastasiia Weiland; Thomas Tjoa; Diane S Kim; Susan S Huang

doi:10.1017/ice.2019.270

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Dec;40(12):1416-1419. doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.270. Epub 2019 Sep 27.

Authors

Drew T Dickinson^{1

2}, Syma Rashid², Anastasiia Weiland², Thomas Tjoa², Diane S Kim², Susan S Huang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California.
³ Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California.

PMID: 31558171
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2019.270

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Continuity of Patient Care*
Hospitals*
Humans
Medication Errors / statistics & numerical data*
Nursing Homes*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents