Prescribing antibiotics to patients with acute cough and otitis media.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Predisposing factors to acquisition of acute respiratory tract infections in the community: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2021
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2. Antibiotic-induced changes in the human gut microbiota for the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in primary care in the UK: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2020
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3. Risk factors for community-acquired respiratory infections in a non-pandemic context: Secondary analysis of the PRIMIT study.PloS one · 2022
   Trial
4. Effects on antibiotic dispensing rates of interventions to promote delayed prescribing for respiratory tract infections in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2013
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6. Is There a Role for Immunostimulant Bacterial Lysates in the Management of Respiratory Tract Infection?Biomolecules · 2024
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7. Assessing the use of minimally invasive self-sampling at home for long-term monitoring of the microbiota within UK families.Scientific reports · 2023
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8. A cooperativity between virus and bacteria during respiratory infections.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023
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9. Antibiotic use and prescription and its effects on Enterobacteriaceae in the gut in children with mild respiratory infections in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A prospective observational outpatient study.PloS one · 2020
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10. Do NHS GP surgeries employing GPs additionally trained in integrative or complementary medicine have lower antibiotic prescribing rates? Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of national primary care prescribing data in England in 2016.BMJ open · 2018
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11. Decision support during electronic prescription to stem antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory infections: a long-term, quasi-experimental study.BMC infectious diseases · 2017
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12. Managing self-limiting respiratory tract infections: a qualitative study of the usefulness of the delayed prescribing strategy.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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13. Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections in children: how can we improve?London journal of primary care · 2010
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14. Impact of a clinical decision support system on antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in primary care: quasi-experimental trial.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Consultations for middle ear disease, antibiotic prescribing and risk factors for reattendance: a case-linked cohort study.2006
• Comment on
  Longer term outcomes from a randomised trial of prescribing strategies in otitis media.2006
• Comment on
  Antibiotic prescribing for acute cough: the effect of perceived patient demand.2006

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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