Inpatient Dosing Of Antibiotics Delayed In Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia

Results of a retrospective study of patients with community-acquired pneumonia suggest that antibiotic dosing is often delayed when the patient is transferred from the emergency department to an inpatient unit.

 This finding, reported here at the Scientific Assembly 2002 of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), suggests that emergency department physicians should consider using longer-acting antibiotics when possible, researchers say.

 Their study is the first to examine delays in subsequent dosing among patients moved from the emergency department to an inpatient unit, according to Manish Shah, MD, an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States.

 In their study Dr. Shah and colleagues compared antibiotic administration for patients receiving antibiotics that required every 6-hour dosing (Q6) and once-daily dosing (Q24).

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