Barriers to penicillin allergy de-labeling in the inpatient and outpatient settings: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Penicillin allergy is the most commonly reported drug allergy in the US. Despite evidence demonstrating that up to 90% of labels are incorrect, scalable interventions are not well established. As part of a larger mixed methods investigation, we conducted a qualitative study to describe the barriers to implementing a risk-based penicillin de-labeling protocol within a single site Veteran's hospital.

Methods

We conducted individual and group interviews with multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient healthcare teams. The interview guides were developed using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to explore workflows and contextual factors influencing identification and evaluation of patients with penicillin allergy. Three researchers iteratively developed the code

SUBMITTER: Alagoz E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10568923 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature