Penicillin allergy may often be unjustified in patient files

The Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg and Waalwijk will conduct further research with twenty general practices in the province of North Brabant into possible incorrect entries of drug allergies in patient files. According to the hospital, 10 to 20 percent of hospital patients have such a drug allergy in their file, usually hypersensitivity to penicillin. But that doesn’t always seem right.