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A method of providing a clinical decision support in allergy diagnosis comprises the steps of: a) providing a body fluid sample from a patient, b) selecting a plurality of allergens to be tested for in the sample, c) determining for each allergen the concentration in the sample of at least one immunoglobulin directed against the allergen, d) transforming each determined immunoglobulin concentration to a clinical effect value on a normalized scale common to allergens in general, e) assigning to each allergen tested for, based on known cross-reactivity information for the allergen, an allergen specificity value, representing the degree of cross-reactivity for the allergen, and f) presenting determined clinical effect and allergen specificity values for each allergen, or a group or groups of the allergens. A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a patient information carrier device containing a diagnosis result are also disclosed.

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