PEN-FAST score to predict penicillin allergy not useful in pediatric population

Question clinique

Is the PEN-FAST score accurate for predicting a true penicillin allergy in children 12 years or younger?

L’Essentiel

Although the PEN-FAST score is useful in identifying adults at low risk of a true penicillin allergy, the same tool is not useful in the pediatric population. 1b

Plan de l'etude: Decision rule (validation)

Financement: Self-funded or unfunded

Cadre: Outpatient (any)

Reviewer

David C. Slawson, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Family Medicine for Education and Scholarship
Atrium Health
Professor of Family Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill
Charlotte, NC


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Commentaires

Anonymous

Pen-Fast not helpful in kids

Pen-Fast not helpful in predicting penicillin allergy in kids like it is in adults.

Pieter Richard Verbeek

PEN-FAST score to predict penicillin allergy not useful in p

Very strange that this predictive score claimed to be helpful in adults is really just a crap shoot in pediatrics. It makes we wonder whether further validation of this score in adults is warranted "just to be sure". At this point, I wouldn't consider using this score in adults until more research is done.

Saeed Labbaf

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Anonymous

pen fast assessment

not accurate in peds