Sore throat management in New Zealand general practice

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1220, 2005, Pages

  Kljakovic, Marjan ^a   Crampton, Peter ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SORE THROAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY; ABORIGINE; AGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 27244459562     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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