Should sore throats be treated with antibiotics?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-84

  Yeh, Benson ^a   Eskin, Barnet ^a  

^a BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEVER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NOTE; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RASH; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RISK; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THRUSH;

EID: 11144223790     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.010     Document Type: Note

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