Assessing the safety of increased outpatient cephalosporin use following the modification of penicillin allergy cross-reactivity alerts
The reduction of penicillin-cephalosporin cross-reactivity alerts was associated with increased cephalosporin use, without a significant increase in adverse reactions. This demonstrates that the practice is safe and decreases alert burden.
Authors
- Sarah Auerbach
- B Schneider
- Kelly M Percival (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7988-320X)
- Deanna McDanel
- Andrew S. Rhinehart
- Patrick Kinn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2600-1784)
- Dilek İnce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5446-3789)
- Amy Dowden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2274-0782)
- Lukasz Weiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5833-7413)
- Jared Frye
- Kevin L Bebout
Institutions
- University of Iowa (US)
- University of Iowa Health Care (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-03-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2025.9
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.79