A real-time prospective evaluation of clinical pharmaco-economic impact of diagnostic label of 'penicillin allergy' in a UK teaching hospital

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1088-1092

  Li, M ^a   Krishna, M T ^b,c,d   Razaq, S ^b   Pillay, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; DAPTOMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CELLULITIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUTROPENIA; OSTEOMYELITIS; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRESCRIPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; COST; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84910129430     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202438     Document Type: Article

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