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.