Errors in Antibiotic Transitions Between Hospital and Nursing Home: How Often Do They Occur?

Overview

Journal Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Health Services
Infectious Diseases
Nursing
Public Health

Date 2019 Sep 28

PMID 31558171

Citations 3

Authors

Drew T Dickinson

Syma Rashid

Anastasiia Weiland

Thomas Tjoa

Diane S Kim

Susan S Huang

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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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