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Adverse Drug Reactions: Types and Treatment Options

Evaluation and Management of Drug Reaction

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Algorithm for the evaluation and management of drug reaction.

*--Not for Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis.

Adapted with permission from Executive summary of disease management of drug hypersensitivity: a practice parameter.
Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and the Joint
Council of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 1999;83:668.

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