Implementation of a Pharmacist-Driven Penicillin and Cephalosporin Allergy Assessment Tool: A Pilot Evaluation.

Objective: Penicillin is the most commonly reported drug allergy despite the low incidence of true immune-mediated reactions. Penicillin allergy labels have been shown to lead to significant patient, institutional, and public health care consequences. This project's purpose was to improve quality of care for patients with penicillin and cephalosporin allergies, admitted to a pediatric institution, by implementation of a pharmacist-driven allergy assessment tool.

Neonatal respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and primary diagnosis: trends between two decades.

Objective: Examine changing neonatal respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) practice trends and outcomes.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study comparing neonatal respiratory ECMO in the 1990 and 2010 decades (1994-1995 and 2014-2015). Patients ≤ 30 days of life, reported to the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry, were included.