Reattendance and complications in a randomised trial of prescribing strategies for sore throat: The medicalising effect of prescribing antibiotics

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7104, 1997, Pages 350-352

  Little, P ^a   Gould, C ^a   Williamson, I ^a   Warner, G ^b   Gantley, M ^a   Kinmonth, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Nightingale Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN V;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0030840073     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7104.350     Document Type: Article

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