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Sore throat in primary care

Sore throat in primary care
Sore throat in primary care
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 …

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Little, Paul
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Little, Paul
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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 …

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Published date: 6 August 2009

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Local EPrints ID: 73621
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/73621
ISSN: 0959-8138
PURE UUID: e1860596-de26-4bb9-9089-b9324bedacd8

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Date deposited: 10 Mar 2010
Last modified: 13 Mar 2024 22:12

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