ArticleAmerican family physician2014
Antibiotics for sore throat.
Article in American family physician, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of social determinants of health on pediatric tonsillectomy.International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology · 2025Pooled it
- A Five-Dimensional Network Meta-Analysis of Chinese Herbal Injections for Treating Acute Tonsillitis Combined With Western Medicine.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- Black mulberry syrup on reducing tonsillar hypertrophy and its clinical symptoms: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2025Article
- The Efficacy of Paraprobiotic Lozenges (Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Guidelines for the Antibiotic Use in Adults with Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections.Infection & chemotherapy · 2017Review
- Evaluating the Appropriateness of Antibiotic Treatment of Tonsillitis during COVID-19 in the North Wale Primary Healthcare Setting.Journal of primary care & community healthObservational
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