Sore throat in primary care
Little, Paul (2009) Sore throat in primary care. BMJ, 339, b2476. (doi:10.1136/bmj.b2476)
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In the linked study (doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2976 ), Hayward and colleagues report a useful and well performed systematic review in a highly topical area. 1 Clinicians and patients need information about interventions other than antibiotics for sore throat for several reasons—the benefit of antibiotics for most patients is modest 2 3; the use of antibiotics should be minimised because of the danger of resistance 3 4; and other effective treatments, apart from the use of analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs, 5 and possibly Echinacea, are lacking. 6 This systematic review provides evidence that in the first 24 hours steroids may help resolve pain (the likelihood of resolution was increased threefold, number needed to treat (NNT) 3.7) and reduce the mean time to onset of pain relief by six hours. Furthermore, given that most patients in the included studies had antibiotics, although …
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 0959-8138 (print) 1468-5833 (electronic) |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Community Clinical Sciences |
| ePrint ID: | 182415 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/182415 |
| Deposited On: | 27 Apr 2011 15:14 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 04:23 |
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