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Allergies
Most Patients Who Think They Are Allergic to Penicillin Are Not; Skin Testing in the Emergency Department Is Fast and Inexpensive
March 13th, 2009
Over 90 percent of patients who report that they are allergic to the antibiotic penicillin in fact test negative for the allergy, which has important implications for how infections are treated in the emergency department and elsewhere. The results of skin testing for penicillin allergy in the emergency department are reported online today in the Annals of Emergency Medicine ("The Use of Penicillin Skin Testing To Assess The Prevalence of Penicillin Allergy In An Emergency Department Setting"). "Penicillin is the drug of choice for a lot of emergency patients, because it's effective and inexpensive, but we can't give it to people who say they are allergic to it," said...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-03-13)
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