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Nurses dominated skin test evaluation (95.3% participation), with 77.5% of all staff endorsing their primary role. For ambiguous test results, 54.6% preferred multi-person consensus (nurses 63.9%, p&lt;0.01). Post-discharge documentation prioritised drug names (94.4%) over clinical indications (70.3%). Pharmacists demonstrated superior documentation awareness (p&lt;0.05). Only 45.5% confirmed having an antimicrobial allergy assessment team, though clinical pharmacists (89.2%) and specialist nurses (88.2%) were deemed essential members.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Currently, the assessment and recording methods for antimicrobial allergies by the medical staff of tertiary hospitals in China are not sufficiently accurate. Nurses play a key role in the assessment of antimicrobial allergies. Thus, medical staff, especially nurses, should receive more vigorous training, and structured assessment tools for antimicrobial allergies based on clinical decision support systems should be devised for them. 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