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Association between penicillin allergy documentation and antibiotic use

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Blumenthal, Kimberly G., Kuper, Kristi, Schulz, Lucas T., Bhowmick, Tanaya, Postelnick, Michael, Lee, Francesca, Walensky, Rochelle P.·2020·JAMA Internal Medicine

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that legalization of recreational marijuana is associated with increased traffic fatality rates.Applying these results to national driving statistics, nationwide legalization would be associated with 6800 (95% CI, 4200-9700) excess roadway deaths each year.Despite certain methodological differences, we found an increase similar to that reported by Aydelotte et al. 4 They reported an increase of 1.8 fatal crashes (equivalent to 2.0 fatalities) per BVMT.We concur with their opinion that changes may not be detected immediately after legalization but only after a longer time period or after commercial sales begin.We chose a control group consisting of all states with neither legal recreational nor medical marijuana to isolate the effects of marijuana.We did not require that control states have baseline attributes similar to the experimental states because the difference-in-difference technique removes biases in comparisons between experimental and control groups that result from permanent differences between those groups.Our conclusions, nonetheless, are limited by adjusting for only 3 state-specific factors that may have changed during the study period.It is possible that another confounder, rather than marijuana legalization and commercialization, caused the observed increase in roadway deaths.

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  • More recent drug allergy updates by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology/American College of Asthma Allergy and Immunology Joint Task Force emphasize that patients with a history of PCN allergy are often treated with less effective antibiotics associated with increased cost and risk of resistance.

    “However, more recent drug allergy updates by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology/American College of Asthma Allergy and Immunology Joint Task Force emphasize that patients with a history of PCN allergy are often treated with less effective antibiotics associated with increased cost and risk of resistance.39”

    From An updated review of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with Streptococcus/pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, also known as idiopathic autoimmune encephalitis: What the allergist should know (2023) · cites this paper as [39]

    The Results and Discussion (pages not provided) report that inpatients with documented penicillin allergy received β-lactam alternatives more often and that these alternatives may be inferior. The cited paper is a cross-sectional study, not a Joint Task Force drug-allergy update, and our copy does not address increased cost or antibiotic resistance. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Blumenthal, K. G., Kuper, K., Schulz, L. T., Bhowmick, T., Postelnick, M., Lee, F., & Walensky, R. P.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Vizient Inc, Irving, Texas
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital (US)
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Blumenthal, Kimberly G.
Venue
JAMA Internal Medicine
Published
2020-08-01
Volume
180
Issue
8
Pages
1120
ISSN
2168-6106 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3037661986
Cited by
69
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5
FWCI
4.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • JAMA Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (K01AI125631)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology › Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Toxicology › Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
Keywords
penicillin allergy, allergy documentation, antibiotic use, antibiotic prescribing, drug allergy labeling
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Cross-Sectional Studies, Documentation, Drug Hypersensitivity, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Penicillins, Texas

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