# A bundle of the top 10 OPAT publications in 2024

## TL;DR

This paper summarizes the top 10 outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) publications from 2024, highlighting key themes like clinician workload and patient perspectives.

## Contribution

A curated summary of the top 10 OPAT publications in 2024 based on clinician survey feedback.

## Key findings

- Top OPAT articles focused on clinician workload and patient perspectives.
- Dalbavancin use was a recurring theme in the top publications.
- Survey results identified the most clinically relevant OPAT articles of 2024.

## Abstract

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.

Narrative review.

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.

This article summarizes the top 10 OPAT articles published in 2024, based on those survey results.

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.