Status:

COMPLETED

The Use of Penicillin Allergy Clinical Decision Rule to Enable Direct Oral Penicillin Challenge

Lead Sponsor:

Austin Health

Conditions:

Hypersensitivity, Immediate

Hypersensitivity, Delayed

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Whilst validated tools exist to enable inpatient penicillin assessment and de-labelling, limited evidence is available regarding the safety and efficacy in the outpatient clinic. The ability to delive...

Detailed Description

Patient-reported penicillin allergies result in poor health outcomes for patients and drive inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, antimicrobial resistance and healthcare costs. Our group has internall...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult patients referred to the outpatient allergy clinic for a penicillin allergy history;
  • Willing and able to give consent.

Exclusion

  • Patient age is \< 18 years;
  • Patients with a PEN-FAST score less than 3
  • Pregnancy;
  • Any other illness that, in the investigator's judgement, will substantially increase the risk associated with subject's participation in this study;
  • Patients with history of type A adverse drug reaction, drug-associated anaphylaxis, idiopathic urticaria/anaphylaxis, mastocytosis, serum sickness, blistering skin eruption or acute interstitial nephritis;
  • Patients where the allergy history was not able to be confirmed with patient;
  • Patients on concurrent antihistamine therapy;
  • Patients receiving more than stress dose steroids (i.e. \> 50mg QID hydrocortisone \[or steroid equivalent\]).

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 2 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

382 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04454229

Start Date

July 1 2021

End Date

December 2 2022

Last Update

March 6 2023

Active Locations (6)

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1

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710

2

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232

3

Austin Health

Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 3084

4

Peter MacCallum Cancer Center

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3000