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    • Allergy and Immunology
    • Clinical Medicine
    • Public Health

    Background:

    • Assessing patient adherence to anaphylaxis management recommendations.
    • Focus on patients treated in an allergy outpatient clinic setting.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To determine the level of adherence to anaphylaxis management guidelines.
    • Evaluate prescription, purchase, and utilization of epinephrine auto-injectors and oral medications.
    • Assess allergen avoidance practices among anaphylaxis patients.

    Main Methods:

    • Survey of 887 patients who experienced anaphylaxis, using a standardized definition.
    • Analysis of epinephrine auto-injector and oral drug use.
    • Evaluation of allergen avoidance behaviors.

    Main Results:

    • High reported allergen avoidance (88.3%) and advice received (94.53%).
    • Low epinephrine auto-injector use (30.74%) compared to oral medication intake (54.26%).
    • Prescription patterns varied by anaphylaxis subtype.

    Conclusions:

    • Despite recommendations, epinephrine auto-injector use for anaphylaxis recurrence is suboptimal.
    • Oral medications are more frequently used than epinephrine auto-injectors.
    • Enhanced strategies are crucial to improve adherence to epinephrine auto-injector therapy.