Safe and successful treatment of intravenous drug users with a peripherally inserted central catheter in an outpatient parenteral antibiotic treatment service

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2641-2644

  Ho, Jennifer ^a   Archuleta, Sophia ^a   Sulaiman, Zuraidah ^a   Fisher, Dale ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Addiction; Endocarditis; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DIAMORPHINE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BONE INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS C; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINGAPORE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149485190     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq355     Document Type: Article

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