Diagnostic testing for penicillin allergy: A survey of practices and cost perceptions

Affiliations

• ¹ MEDCIDS - Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ² CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto, Portugal.
• ³ Laboratory of Immunology, Basic and Clinical Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁴ Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Allergy, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Chest Diseases, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
• ⁸ Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
• ⁹ Central Hospital of Funchal, SESARAM - Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira EPE, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
• ¹⁰ Division of Immunology and Allergic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University School of Medicine, Rize, Turkey.
• ¹¹ Drug Allergy Center, Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
• ¹² Immuno-Allergology Service, Hospital Centre of Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal.
• ¹³ Allergy Unit, University Clinic of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases Golnik, Golnik, Slovenia.
• ¹⁴ Unit of Allergy, Metz Regional Hospital, Metz, France.
• ¹⁵ Dermatology Unit, Santa Chiara Hospital, APSS, Trento, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Unit of Occupational and Environmental Allergy, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Unit, Alicante University General Hospital, Alicante, Spain.
• ¹⁸ Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL - FISABIO Foundation), Alicante, Spain.
• ¹⁹ Division of Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ²⁰ Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• ²¹ Clinical Allergology Department, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.
• ²² Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ²³ Allergy and Clinical Immunology Department, Algarve University Hospital Centre, Portimão, Portugal.
• ²⁴ Pediatric Department, AAS2 Bassa Friulana-Isontina (UD), Palmanova, Italy.
• ²⁵ Srebrnjak Children's Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
• ²⁶ Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ²⁷ Floridsdorf Allergy Center (FAZ), Vienna, Austria.
• ²⁸ Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
• ²⁹ Allergy Unit, CUF Porto Institute & Hospital, Porto, Portugal.
• ³⁰ Immuno-Allergology Department, Hospital Centre of Porto EPE, Porto, Portugal.