Safety and efficacy of home intravenous antimicrobial infusion therapy in older patients: A comparative study with younger patients

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1188-1192

  Perez Lopez J ^a   San Jose Laporte A ^a   Pardos Gea, J ^a   Tapia Melenchon E ^a   Lozano Ortin E ^a   Barrio Guirado, A ^a   Vilardell Tarres M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; HEMOGLOBIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PROTEIN; TEICOPLANIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANEMIA; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EOSINOPHILIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GROUPS BY AGE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOME CARE; HOME INTRAVENOUS THERAPY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFUSION; INJECTION SITE INFECTION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOPENIA; LOCAL INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PHLEBITIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME INFUSION THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47149112192     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2008.01747.x     Document Type: Article

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