Digital self-assessment identifies low-risk patients with penicillin, sulfa allergy

WASHINGTON — A digital self-assessment demonstrated effectiveness at identifying low-risk patients with penicillin or sulfa allergies, results of a study here showed.
Morgan Rose, MBBS, DTM&H, FRACP, from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, in Australia, noted that one of the reasons for the study “was the fact that the vast majority of penicillin allergies are low risk, and we know that those individuals can be safely delabeled with direct oral challenge as opposed to skin testing, so having a dedicated low-risk clinic would really let you access the maximum number of patients

WASHINGTON — A digital self-assessment demonstrated effectiveness at identifying low-risk patients with penicillin or sulfa allergies, results of a study here showed.
Morgan Rose, MBBS, DTM&H, FRACP, from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, in Australia, noted that one of the reasons for the study “was the fact that the vast majority of penicillin allergies are low risk, and we know that those individuals can be safely delabeled with direct oral challenge as opposed to skin testing, so having a dedicated low-risk clinic would really let you access the maximum number of patients