What factors affect the carriage of epinephrine auto‐injectors by teenagers?
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical and Translational Allergy
- Vol. 2 (1), 3
- https://doi.org/10.1186/2045-7022-2-3
Abstract
Teenagers with allergies are at particular risk of severe and fatal reactions, but epinephrine auto-injectors are not always carried as prescribed. We investigated barriers to carriage.Keywords
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