Oral Food Challenge: Are There Better Means to Predict Outcomes?
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Oral food challenge outcomes in a pediatric tertiary care center
BACKGROUND Oral food challenges are the clinical standard for diagnosis of food allergy. Little data exist on predictors of oral challenge failure and reaction severity. METHODS A retrospective chart review was done on all pediatric patients who had oral food challenges in a tertiary care pediatric allergy clinic from 2008 to 2010. RESULTS 313 oral challenges were performed, of which the ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0091-6749
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.569