Current Practice and Barriers to an Early Antimicrobial Conversion from Intravenous to Oral among Hospitalized Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital: Prospective Observational Study

المؤلفون المشاركون

Beyene Berha, Alemseged
Kassie, Gizat Molla

المصدر

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

العدد

المجلد 2019، العدد 2019 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2019)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2019-01-29

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

8

التخصصات الرئيسية

الأمراض
الطب البشري

الملخص EN

Objective.

The aim of the present study was to explore the current practice and its barriers to an early antimicrobial conversion from intravenous (IV) to oral (PO) therapy among hospitalized patients.

Method.

Hospital based prospective observational study was conducted to assess the practice of an early antimicrobial IV to PO conversion and its barriers using medical chart and case-specific physicians’ interviews, respectively, from February to September, 2014.

Patient charts and medication records were reviewed for appropriateness of IV to PO conversion program every 24hrs using a pretested data collection abstraction format.

Independent samples t-test was used to compare the duration of therapy and time to clinical stability between converted and nonconverted patients.

Two-tailed P values of < 0.05 were regarded as statistically significant.

Results.

One hundred forty-two patients were included in the study, of whom two-thirds (67.6%) of the patients were eligible for IV to PO antimicrobial conversion.

However, only 20.9% of patients’ timely conversion was made.

A shorter duration of IV therapy was recorded for converted (2.80±1.87) versus nonconverted patients (8.50±6.32), (P=0.009).

The most important barriers of not converting IV to PO in clinically stable patients were presence of comorbidity; clinicians perceived that the patient should always complete IV course of antimicrobials as a standard practice.

Conclusion.

Conversion from IV to PO antimicrobials was found to be unnecessarily delayed in a significant proportion of patients hospitalized with moderate to severe infection due to a range of different barriers.

Addressing these issues has the potential to reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use and resistance.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Beyene Berha, Alemseged& Kassie, Gizat Molla. 2019. Current Practice and Barriers to an Early Antimicrobial Conversion from Intravenous to Oral among Hospitalized Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital: Prospective Observational Study. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1168779

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Beyene Berha, Alemseged& Kassie, Gizat Molla. Current Practice and Barriers to an Early Antimicrobial Conversion from Intravenous to Oral among Hospitalized Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital: Prospective Observational Study. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1168779

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Beyene Berha, Alemseged& Kassie, Gizat Molla. Current Practice and Barriers to an Early Antimicrobial Conversion from Intravenous to Oral among Hospitalized Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital: Prospective Observational Study. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1168779

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-1168779