Inpatient Penicillin Allergy Evaluation Program Enriches Anti-Microbial Stewardship Aims

Rationale The stewardship allergy assessment team (StAAT) consists of representation from pharmacy, infectious disease, and allergy who offer penicillin skin testing (PST) and evaluation for inpatients with penicillin allergy. Infections treated at the time of testing included: pneumonia, fever of u...

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Published in:Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2018-02, Vol.141 (2), p.AB31-AB31
Main Authors: Kleris, Renee, Sarubbi, Christina, Wrenn, Rebekah, Anderson, Deverick, Lugar, Patricia L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allergies
Antibiotics
Infectious diseases
Patients
Penicillin
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Summary:Rationale The stewardship allergy assessment team (StAAT) consists of representation from pharmacy, infectious disease, and allergy who offer penicillin skin testing (PST) and evaluation for inpatients with penicillin allergy. Infections treated at the time of testing included: pneumonia, fever of unknown origin, neurosyphilis, bacteremia, intravascular, bone/joint, urinary tract, intraabdominal, and skin/soft tissue infections. 44 (94%) were cleared of previous penicillin allergy after negative skin testing and supervised oral challenge to amoxicillin.
ISSN:0091-6749
1097-6825
DOI:10.1016/j.jaci.2017.12.102