OPAT Resources

UNC Medical Center Resources

• Guideline for Monitoring Outpatient Intravenous and Oral Antimicrobial Therapy
  The UNCMC Guideline for monitoring outpatient intravenous and oral antimicrobial therapy (Updated: May 2021. The update replaces “Red Man Syndrome” with “Vancomycin Flushing Syndrome.”

• Protocol for Managing Hypokalemia
  The UNC Medical Center developed a protocol for managing hypokalemia in patients enrolled in the UNC OPAT Program.
  Its recommendations can be utilized by OPAT clinicians to assess hypokalemia at any time point throughout the patient’s OPAT course. (Updated: March 2020)

• About The UNC OPAT Program (Updated: August 2019)

• OPAT Referral Instructions (Updated: November 2018)

Publications

• OPAT Delivery during COVID-19. Michael J Swartwood, BSN, RN, CAPM, Renae A Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, Alan C Kinlaw, PhD, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, MD, Ashley Marx, PharmD, Emily J Ciccone, MD, MHS, Asher J Schranz, MD, Mary C Bowman, MD, PhD, Claire E Farel, MD, MPH. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, October 2020, Page S308, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.676 Published: 31 December 2020
• Identifying Intervention Opportunities to Prevent Readmissions during OPAT. Michael J Swartwood, BSN, RN, CAPM, Claire E Farel, MD, MPH, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, MD, Renae A Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, Ashley Marx, PharmD, Emily J Ciccone, MD, MHS, Asher J Schranz, MD, Alan C Kinlaw, PhD. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, October 2020, Page S365, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.801 Published: 31 December 2020
• Post-discharge Care Coordination Telephone Call for Patients Enrolled in the UNC OPAT Program. Renae A Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, Michael J Swartwood, BSN, RN, CAPM, Alan C Kinlaw, PhD, Anita Holt, RN, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, MD, Ashley Marx, PharmD, Emily J Ciccone, MD, MHS, Asher J Schranz, MD, Mary C Bowman, MD, PhD, Claire E Farel, MD, MPH. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, October 2020, Page S370, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.812 Published: 31 December 2020
• Kinlaw AC, Marx AH, Farel CE. Bias-Corrected Estimates of Time-Varying Adverse Drug Event Rates for Patients on Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Jul 2;67(2):316-318. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy104.

Posters & Presentations

• Mackenzie Warner, Sydney Browder, Michael Swartwood, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, Howard Kashefsky, Ashley Marx. (2020). Patients Treated for Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis in an Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Program.
• Renae Boerneke, Michael Swartwood, Alan Kinlaw, Anita Holt, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, Ashley H Marx, Emily Ciccone, Asher Schranz, Mary Catherine Bowman, Claire Farel. (2020, Oct. 21). Post-discharge Coordination Telephone Outreach for Patients Enrolled in the UNC OPAT Program. [Poster Presentation]. ID Week 2020, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
• Michael Swartwood, Claire Farel, Renae Boerneke, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, Ashley Marx, Asher Schranz, Emily Ciccone, Mary Catherine Bowman, Alan Kinlaw. (21 Oct 2020).Identifying Intervention Opportunities to Prevent Readmissions during OPAT. [Poster Presentation]. ID Week 2020, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
• Michael Swartwood, Renae Boerneke, Alan Kinlaw, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, Ashley Marx, Emily Ciccone, Asher Schranz, Mary Catherine Bowman, Claire Farel. (21 Oct 2020).OPAT Delivery during COVID-19. [Poster Presentation]. ID Week 2020, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
• Asher Schranz, Alan Kinlaw, Michael Swartwood, Ashley Marx, Renae Boerneke, Tenesha Medlin, Erin Mays, Claire E. Farel. OPAT at the End of Life?: Short and Long-Term Mortality Following Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 6, Issue supplement 2, 23 October 2019, Page S383, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.944
• Bobbi Jo Walston, Lisa Fletcher, William Wilson, Renae Boerneke, Ashley Marx, John Vargas, Claire Farel. Implementation of a Pharmacist-led Intervention for Infectious Diseases Patients Discharged on Antimicrobials: the Infectious Diseases Discharge Outreach and Retention (ID DOOR) Program. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 6, Issue supplement 2, 23 October 2019, Pages S333–S334, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.815
• Asajah Duncan, Alan Kinlaw, Vahini Chundi, Claire Farel, Ashley Marx on behalf of the UNC Medical Center OPAT Program. Vancomycin Treatment and Time to Adverse Drug Reactions During Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT). Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 5, Issue suppl_1, 26 November 2018, Pages S554.
• Onyeka Nwankwo, Anh Eichholz, Vahini Chundi, Alan Kinlaw, Tenesha Medlin, Lisa Fletcher, Wesley Kufel, Claire Farel, Ashley Marx. Characterization of Readmissions Among Patients Enrolled in an Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Program Over a 2-Year Period at UNC Medical Center. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Issue suppl 1, 1 October 2017, Pages S335, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.795
• Vahini Chundi, Anh Eichholz, Onyeka Nwankwo, Alan Kinlaw, Wesley Kufel, Tenesha Medlin, Lisa Fletcher, Ashley Marx, Claire Farel. Adverse Drug Reactions Among Patients Enrolled in an Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Program 2015–2016 at UNC Medical Center. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Issue suppl 1, 1 October 2017, Pages S341, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.813