Society guideline links: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Treatment and prevention of infective endocarditis" and "Society guideline links: Osteomyelitis and prosthetic joint infection in adults".)

United States

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guideline for the management of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (2018)

●Handbook of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) for infectious diseases, 3rd edition (2016)

United Kingdom

●Updated good practice recommendations for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in adults and children in the UK (2019)

●National Health Service (NHS) England: Guidance on the pharmaceutical issues concerning OPAT (outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy) services and other outpatient intravenous therapies (2018)