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Include penicillin allergy history in medicines reconciliation to ensure accurate status, says RPS

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They should then ensure that records are updated for any patients with a penicillin allergy label that have since successfully received penicillin without an allergic reaction. The researchers had estimated that incorrect penicillin allergy records affect 2.7 million people in England.

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Pharmacogenetics: What pharmacists need to know

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If these results can be integrated into a patient’s medical records, they can be used to inform the prescription of future medicines throughout that patient’s life. A 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel to prevent adverse drug reactions: An open-label, multicentre, controlled, cluster-randomised crossover implementation study.

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