Self-administration in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy service
- Conditions
- selfadministration of intravenous antimicrobial therapy10004018
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 70
- Aged 18 and over
- Hospitalized
- Treated with intravenous antimicrobial therapy and to be discharged with OPAT
service
- To be discharged with OPAT service for a minimum of 5 days
- Central intravenous access in place
- Has a safe home environment (water, telephone, refrigerator available) and
access to transport to hospital
- Able to understand written information and able to give informed consent
- Able and willing to perform self-administration, or able and willing to be
self-administered by family members or other caregivers
- Able and willing to fill in questionnaires
Instead of the patient, a caregiver can also be eligible to perform
self-administration. A caregiver is eligible if:
- Aged 18 and over
- Able to understand written information and able to give informed consent
- Able and willing to perform daily administration of intravenous therapy after
following a training
- Patient is willing to get self-administered by this caregiver
- Former participation in this study
- Discharge to a rehabilitation centre or nursing care centre (i.e. no
discharge to home)
- Concomitant nursing care, if the patient requires other nursing care the
patient will be placed on nursing care and the nurses administer the medication
during the concomitant nursing care
- More than two intravenous antimicrobial therapy required
- More than one intravenous administration device required (e.g. elastomeric
pump and medication cassette)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method