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Relationship between microbiology of throat swab and clinical course among primary care patients with acute cough: a prospective cohort study
- Abstract:
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Background: Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTIs) account for most antibiotics prescribed in primary care despite lack of efficacy, partly due to clinician uncertainty about aetiology and patient concerns about illness course. Nucleic acid amplification tests could assist antibiotic targeting.
Methods: In this prospective cohort study, 645 patients presenting to primary care with acute cough and suspected ALRTI, provided throat...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Family Practice Journal website
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 332-339
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-12-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1460-2229
- ISSN:
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0263-2136
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1076260
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- Local pid:
- pubs:1076260
- Source identifiers:
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1076260
- Deposit date:
- 2019-12-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Ordóñez-Mena et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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