Journal article
Benefits of negative penicillin skin test results persist during subsequent hospital admissions
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Vol.32(2), pp.317-319
01/15/2001
DOI: 10.1086/318450
PMID: 11170927
Abstract
For an initial series of 38 patients with negative skin test results, we reviewed retrospectively all subsequent admissions over a 2-year period. For 38 patients with negative initial skin test results, there were 48 subsequent readmissions to our institution, of which 35 required antibiotics. beta-lactams were prescribed for 86% of admissions; a penicillin for 37%, and a cephalosporin for 51%. All infections were cured, and there were no allergic drug reactions during any of the admissions that were reviewed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Benefits of negative penicillin skin test results persist during subsequent hospital admissions
- Creators
- E N Perencevich - Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA. eperence@caregroup.harvard.eduP F WellerM H SamoreA D Harris
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Vol.32(2), pp.317-319
- DOI
- 10.1086/318450
- PMID
- 11170927
- NLM abbreviation
- Clin Infect Dis
- ISSN
- 1058-4838
- eISSN
- 1537-6591
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/15/2001
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983779491302771
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