2. • Frequently, children with resistant infections are
discharged with Long-Term IV therapy as opposed to
Oral Antibiotics.
• Why?
• Problem: Insufficient Research and Evidence
Based Practice
• Solution:ThePatient-CenteredOutcomes
Institutioniscurrentlyfundingaresearchstudy,
conductedbyRonKeren,MD,MPH,which
comparestheeffectivenessofeachtreatment.
Although they found that the prevalence of treatment failure and antibiotic-related adverse events was equivalent between the groups in a propensity score–matched analysis
