Abstract:
Objective: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is a mainstay of clinical infectious diseases practice, and OPAT-related publications continue to be prominent in journals. The objective of this article is to summarize ten clinically important OPAT-related publications from 2024.
Design: Narrative review.
Methods: Eighty-one articles were found in a literature search, and 56 met inclusion criteria. A survey containing 25 articles was sent to an email listserv of clinicians with OPAT experience.
Results: This article summarizes the top 10 OPAT articles published in 2024, based on those survey results.
Conclusions: Common themes from the top 10 OPAT articles published in 2024 included OPAT clinician workload, patient perspectives of OPAT, tools for OPAT work, and dalbavancin use.
Reference:Childs-Kean LM, Azimi SF, Beieler AM, Castellino L, Keller SC, Pertzborn M, Yamshchikov A, Yoke LH, Young K, Mahoney MV. A bundle of the top 10 OPAT publications in 2024. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2026 Jan 13;6(1):e20. doi: 10.1017/ash.2025.10281. PMID: 41562022; PMCID: PMC12813723.