Antibiotic allergy labels in hospitalized and critically ill adults

A Vanderbilt study shows that physicians can safely identify and disprove low-risk penicillin allergies using an oral amoxicillin challenge in consenting patients, even those in the intensive care unit (ICU) who are recovering from critical illness. This finding, reported in The Journal of Antibiotic Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, shows that similar approaches can be made in other […]