Predicting streptococcal pharyngitis in adults in primary care: a systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of symptoms and signs and validation of the Centor score

BACKGROUND: Stratifying patients with a sore throat into the probability of having an underlying bacterial or viral cause may be helpful in targeting antibiotic treatment. We sought to assess the diagnostic accuracy of signs and symptoms and validate a clinical prediction rule (CPR), the Centor scor...

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Autores principales: Aalbers, Jolien, O'Brien, Kirsty K, Chan, Wai-Sun, Falk, Gavin A, Teljeur, Conor, Dimitrov, Borislav D, Fahey, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3127779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21631919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-67

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