By IDSE News Staff
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) and partial oral antibiotic therapy regimens were as effective and less expensive than admitting patients with injection drug use–associated endocarditis for six weeks of IV antibiotics (JAMA Network Open 2022;5[2]:e220541).
A new modeling study suggested that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experience better long-term health