Abbreviations: BLA: Beta lactam allergy
The median duration of admission for the government funded hospital
patients was six days (IQR 4;15) with longer admission durations at GSH
and MPDH as compared to NSH and VWH (Table 3, Supplement Table
2 ). There were 37 re-admissions to government-funded hospitals in the
six months following hospitalization. Overall, 34 of these admissions
occurred in seven patients (four patients had four readmissions, and
three patients had three readmissions). The data for admission, length
of stay, and readmission rates were not available for the
privately-funded hospitals. A total of eight patients were contactable
after discharge with 21 patients lost to follow up (not including two
deaths and five patients that declined further investigation)
(Table 5 ). However, only 3/8 patients returned to the GSH
Allergy Clinic for evaluation, 5 patients missed clinic follow up and
were subsequently not contactable. All three patients had negative
epidermal testing but, two of these patients declined an oral challenge.
Ultimately only one patient proceeded to direct oral challenge, which
was negative.