Healthcare professionals' attitudes to penicillin allergy labels

CONCLUSIONS: The penicillin allergy label is an independent factor of medication errors. Solutions to enhance patient safety may include education of physicians in allergy labelling, decision support, standardisation of the allergy registration in the various EMR systems used, and ideally also a national drug allergy register, which is accessible from all sectors.FUNDING: None.TRIAL REGISTRATION: Not relevant.PMID:37622646
Source: Danish Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research