Association Between Penicillin Allergy Documentation and Antibiotic Use

JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Aug 1;180(8):1120-1122. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2227.

Kimberly G Blumenthal^{1

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3}, Kristi Kuper⁴, Lucas T Schulz⁵, Tanaya Bhowmick⁶, Michael Postelnick⁷, Francesca Lee⁸, Rochelle P Walensky^{2

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¹ Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² The Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
³ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Vizient Inc, Irving, Texas.
⁵ Department of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin Health, Madison.
⁶ Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
⁷ Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pathology and Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
⁹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Abstract

This cohort study assesses the prevalence and association of documented penicillin allergy with inpatient antibiotic use in the US.