Incidence of interruptive penicillin allergy alerts in patients with previously documented beta-lactam exposure: Potential for leveraging the electronic health record to identify erroneous allergies.
Nicole Van GroningenRay DuncanGalen Cook-WiensAaron KwongMatthew SonesenTeryl K NuckolsSuzanne L CasselJoshua M PevnickPublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2021)
Many interruptive penicillin allergy alerts display for patients who would likely tolerate a penicillin, and half of all alerts display for patients who would likely tolerate another β-lactam.