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Antibiotic Allergy Labeling in Primary Care: Challenges, Consequences and a Path Forward

2026-03-13

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Approximately 10% of the general population reports a penicillin allergy, making it one of the most commonly documented drug allergies in clinical practice. Yet formal evaluation confirms true hypersensitivity in fewer than 10% of these cases. This gap has practical consequences. Patients who carry an inaccurate allergy label are more likely to receive broader-spectrum alternative antibiotics, with downstream effe...

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Literature Corpus work: 66a9395f-4a42-5485-a2bc-d741a04d2aba
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202603.1051.v1

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