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A nurse-driven penicillin allergy risk score in the preoperative setting was associated with increased cefazolin use perioperatively.
J Clin Anesth
August 2024
Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Drive Lebanon, NH 03756, USA; Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA; Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Rope Ferry Rd, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. Electronic address:
Study Objective: To characterize and assess the effects of a preoperative, nurse-driven penicillin allergy risk stratification tool on rates of perioperative cefazolin and second-line antibiotic use.
Design: Quasi-experimental quality improvement study of penicillin-allergic surgical patients undergoing procedures for which cefazolin is indicated.
Setting: Outpatient Perioperative Care Clinic (PCC) for preoperative surgical patients at a tertiary care center.