Amoxicillin for acute lower-respiratory-tract infection in primary care when pneumonia is not suspected: a 12-country, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

• Prof Paul Little, FRCGP^{a, ,} ,
• Beth Stuart, PhD^a,
• Michael Moore, FRCGP^a,
• Prof Samuel Coenen, DMSc^b,
• Prof Christopher C Butler, FRCGP^d,
• Prof Maciek Godycki-Cwirko, PhD^f,
• Prof Artur Mierzecki, PhD^g,
• Slawomir Chlabicz, PhD^h,
• Prof Antoni Torres, PhD^{i, j},
• Jordi Almirall, MD^{k, l},
• Mel Davies, MSc^m,
• Tom Schaberg, PhDⁿ,
• Prof Sigvard Mölstad, PhD^{o, p},
• Prof Francesco Blasi, MD^q,
• An De Sutter, PhD^r,
• Prof Janko Kersnik, PhD^s,
• Helena Hupkova, PhD^t,
• Pia Touboul, MD^u,
• Prof Kerenza Hood, PhD^e,
• Mark Mullee, MSc^a,
• Gilly O'Reilly, PhD^a,
• Curt Brugman, MSc^v,
• Prof Herman Goossens, PhD^c,
• Prof Theo Verheij, PhD^v,
• • on behalf of the GRACE consortium

• ^a Primary Care and Population Sciences Division, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
• ^b Centre for General Practice, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• ^c Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• ^d Cochrane Institutes of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
• ^e South East Wales Trials Unit, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
• ^f Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
• ^g Independent Laboratory of Family Physician Education, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
• ^h Department of Family Medicine and Community Nursing, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
• ⁱ Pneumology Department, Clinic Institute of Thorax, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
• ^j Insitut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona—Ciber de Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain
• ^k Unitat de Cures Intensives, Hospital de Mataró, Mataró, Spain
• ^l University of Barcelona—Ciber de Enfermedades Respiratorias (Ciberes), Barcelona, Spain
• ^m Ely Bridge Surgery, Ely, Cardiff, UK
• ⁿ Zentrum für Pneumologie, Diakoniekrankenhaus, Rotenburg, Germany
• ^o Department of Clinical Sciences, General Practice SUS, CRC Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
• ^p Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
• ^q Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, IRCCS Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Cà Granda Milano, Milan, Italy
• ^r Department of Family Practice and Primary Health Care, Hyemans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
• ^s OZG ZD Jesenice & Department of Family Medicine, University Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• ^t Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• ^u Department of Public Health, Nice University Hospital, Nice, France
• ^v Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Available online 19 December 2012