Antibiotic Allergy Labels in Children Are Associated With Adverse Clinical Outcomes

Abstract

M Lucas, A Arnold, A Sommerfield. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2019;7(3):975–982\n\nTo examine whether antibiotic allergy labeling has a significant impact on clinical outcomes in children.\n\nThe study included 1672 pediatric patients. The mean age of patients was 6.8 years (range: 0–18.7 years).\n\nChildren with an antibiotic allergy label in their charts admitted to a tertiary care teaching hospital in Australia were retrospectively identified from April 2014 to April 2015 through …