Impact of rapid antigen detection testing on antibiotic prescription in acute pharyngitis in adults. FARINGOCAT STUDY: A multicentric randomized controlled trial

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Madurell, Jordi ^a   Balagué, Montse ^b   Gómez, Mónica ^c   Cots, Josep M ^d   Llor, Carl ^e  

^a Primary Healthcare Center Hostalric   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^c Primary Healthcare Center Doctor Josep Torner i Fors   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951571279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-11-25     Document Type: Article

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