Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy in pediatrics: the role of antimicrobial stewardship

Daniel J Trisno; Lauren Puckett; Alexandria Jensen; Hayden T Schwenk

doi:10.1017/ash.2024.405

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy in pediatrics: the role of antimicrobial stewardship

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024 Nov 13;4(1):e203. doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.405. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Daniel J Trisno¹, Lauren Puckett¹, Alexandria Jensen², Hayden T Schwenk³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
² Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Abstract

This study characterized outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) orders and associated antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) pharmacist recommendations made in a freestanding children's hospital. Recommendations occurred in over 50% of orders, indicating an opportunity for the review of OPAT by ASP pharmacists.