Abstract
Penicillin allergy is reported by roughly 10% of the U.S. population, but in a recent study in which patients who reported penicillin allergy were skin tested and given oral challenges, fewer than 10% were truly allergic (NEJM JW Gen Med Jul 11, 2013). This overreporting leads clinicians to prescribe other antibiotics, which may be more expensive, less efficacious, and more likely …
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