Evaluation and Management of Penicillin Allergy

This narrative review summarizes the epidemiology of penicillin allergy and the clinical consequences of misattributing adverse drug events to β-lactam allergy, including development of antimicrobial resistance and adverse events associated with alternative antibiotics, and proposes an algorithm to facilitate evaluation of true penicillin allergy.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research