Intravenous to Oral Antibiotic Switch Therapy among Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Abhishek DeshpandeMichael KlompasNing GuoPeter B ImreyAndrea M PallottaThomas HigginsSarah HaesslerMarya D ZilberbergPeter K LindenauerMichael B RothbergPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
Although early switching was not associated with worse outcomes and was associated with shorter LOS and fewer days on antibiotics, it occurred infrequently. Even in hospitals with high switch rates, <15% of very low risk patients were switched early. Our findings suggest many more patients could be switched early without compromising outcomes.