A decision aid to rule out pneumonia and reduce unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care patients with cough and fever

BACKGROUND: Physicians fear missing cases of pneumonia and treat many patients with signs of respiratory infection unnecessarily with antibiotics. This is an avoidable cause for the increasing worldwide problem of antibiotic resistance. We developed a user-friendly decision aid to rule out pneumonia...

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Autores principales: Steurer, Johann, Held, Ulrike, Spaar, Anne, Bausch, Birke, Zoller, Marco, Hunziker, Roger, Bachmann, Lucas M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-56

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-56

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