Diagnostic confirmation of amoxicillin allergy in children treated at the Division of Pediatric Allergy.

Unlabelled: Amoxicillin is a beta-lactam antibiotic commonly indicated in pediatrics and the most frequent cause of drug allergies.

Objectives: To determine the proportion of confirmed amoxicillin allergy in children with diagnostic suspicion seen at the Division of Pediatric Allergy.

Population And Methods: This descriptive, retrospective study was done between January 2009 and January 2017 in children younger than 18 years with diagnostic suspicion of amoxicillin allergy.

Chronic urticaria in a health maintenance organization of Buenos Aires, Argentina - new data that increase global knowledge of this disease.

Background: In spite of the frequency of chronic urticaria, there are no epidemiological studies on its prevalence in Argentina.

Objective: The objective of this study was to define the prevalence and epidemiological characteristics of chronic urticaria patients in Buenos Aires.

Methods: The population studied were the members of the Italian Hospital Medical Care Program, a prepaid health maintenance organization located in the urban areas around the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Direct Medical Costs of Chronic Urticaria in a Private Health Organization of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Background: Scarce studies address the issue of resource consumption and direct health care costs of patients diagnosed with adult-onset chronic urticaria (CU).

Objectives: To estimate medical resource consumption and direct health care costs of affected patients in a private health maintenance organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with adult-onset CU (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code 708.