A 5-year retrospective review of outpatient graded drug challenges
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-3-2019
Abstract
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Drug allergies are commonly over-reported. These inaccurate drug allergy labels adversely impact patient care because first-line medications are unnecessarily avoided. For penicillin allergy, use of second-line antibiotics is associated with increased adverse reactions, cost, hospital length of stay, and bacterial resistance in both children and adults.1, 2, 3 Despite the harm of unnecessarily avoiding first-line medications, there is limited validated diagnostic testing for drug allergy. Graded drug challenges (GDCs) are the gold standard for the diagnosis or exclusion of IgE-mediated drug allergy in the office, and delayed reactions outside of the office. GDCs consist of administering 1 to 3 doses of the medication in question over time.4 Although GDCs have an excellent safety record with no reported deaths, more data are required to better characterize GDCs.4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2019.06.023
Publication Information
Lutz, David; Ramsey, Allison; Conn, Kelly; and Mustafa, S. Shahzad (2019). "A 5-year retrospective review of outpatient graded drug challenges." The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice 8.1, 407-408.
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