Point-of-Care β-Lactam Allergy Skin Testing by Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: A Pragmatic Multicenter Prospective Evaluation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1059-1065

  Leis, Jerome A ^a,b,c   Palmay, Lesley ^d   Ho, Grace ^e   Raybardhan, Sumit ^f   Gill, Suzanne ^e   Kan, Tiffany ^f   Campbell, Jackie ^d,g   Kiss, Alex ^b   McCready, Janine B ^a,e   Das, Pavani ^a,f   Minnema, Brian ^a,f   Powis, Jeff E ^a,c,e   Walker, Sandra A N ^d   Ferguson, Heather ^g   Wong, Benny ^f,h   Weber, Elizabeth ^g,h  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

antimicrobial stewardship; clinical outcome; penicillin allergy; quality improvement; lactam allergy

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY TEST; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHARMACIST; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN TEST; URTICARIA; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP; BETA-LACTAMS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 85027394238     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix512     Document Type: Article

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