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Influence of patient symptoms and physical findings on general practitioners' treatment of respiratory tract infections: a direct observation study

BACKGROUND: The high rate of antibiotic prescriptions general practitioners (GPs) make for respiratory tract infections (RTI) are often explained by non-medical reasons e.g. an effort to meet patient expectations. Additionally, it is known that GPs to some extent believe in the necessity of antibiot...

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Autores principales: Fischer, Thomas, Fischer, Susanne, Kochen, Michael M, Hummers-Pradier, Eva
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC550651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15698471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-6-6