β-lactam allergy: Clinical implications and costs

Clinical and Molecular Allergy

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Satta, Giovanni ^a   Hill, Victoria ^a   Lanzman, Marisa ^a   Balakrishnan, Indran ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allergy; Cost; Penicillin; lactam

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; GLYCOPEPTIDE; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BETA LACTAM ALLERGY; CHEST INFECTION; DRUG COST; DRUG ERUPTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SEPSIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; RASH; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84888256615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7961-11-2     Document Type: Article

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