The economic burden of antibiotic treatment of penicillin‐allergic patients in internal medicine wards of a general tertiary care hospital
- 9 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical and Experimental Allergy
- Vol. 33 (4), 501-506
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2222.2003.01638.x
Abstract
Background Penicillin allergy poses a major problem in the management of infectious diseases. Objective We estimated the costs and usage of antibiotic treatment of ‘penicillin‐allergic’ patients in c...Keywords
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