Penicillin allergy skin testing as an antibiotic stewardship intervention reduces alternative antibiotic exposures in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.

Anita R Modi Navneet S MajhailLisa RybickiVasilios AthansKelley CarlstromPavithra SrinivasDavid M LangRonald SobecksChristopher S Kovacs

Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2019)

Penicillin allergy skin testing adjudicates reported β-lactam allergy in HSCT recipients, lowering use, DOT, and cost of alternative antibiotics and promoting effective formulary agents to treat immunocompromised HSCT recipients.

Keyphrases

hematopoietic stem cell
atopic dermatitis
soft tissue
randomized controlled trial
infectious diseases
wound healing
kidney transplantation
air pollution
intensive care unit
gram negative
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation