The National Home Infusion Foundation’s (NHIF) Status at Discharge Benchmarking initiative is based on the need for research that evaluates the safety of home infusion services and aims to understand why patients discontinue their home infusion service. The goals of the program include obtaining data on the percentage of patients who complete their home infusion medication therapy and calculating the incidence of adverse drug reactions and unplanned hospitalizations that caused discontinuation of therapy. This initiative also collected descriptive data about home infusion services, such as patient demographics and the types of catheters utilized.

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