Errors In Antibiotic Transitions Between Hospital And Nursing Home: How Often Do They Occur?

INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY(2019)

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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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antibiotic transitions,nursing home,hospital
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