Drug Allergy in Older Adults: A Study from the United States Drug Allergy Registry

CONCLUSION: Older adults represented a quarter of USDAR participants but were neither racially nor ethnically diverse and were generally healthy without considerable antibiotic need. Most older adults presented for antibiotic allergy assessments, the vast majority of which were disproved. Drug allergy assessments may be underutilized in the older adults who are most vulnerable to the harms of unconfirmed antibiotic allergy labels.PMID:37557950 | DOI:10.1016/j.anai.2023.07.024

Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - August 9, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: John J O Accarino Allison Ramsey Upeka Samarakoon Elizabeth Phillips Alexei Gonzalez-Estrada Iris M Otani Xiaoqing Fu Aleena Banerji Cosby A Stone David A Khan Kimberly G Blumenthal USDAR Study Team Source Type: research