Sore throats.

Antibiotics, sore throats and acute nephritis.

A study was carried out of 274 children in Scotland aged 0 to 13 years recorded as having had acute nephritis over a four-year period (1976-79). The medical records for 223 of the patients were examined and 79 cases of poststreptococcal nephritis were identified, giving an estimated incidence of 2.1 episodes per 100,000 children per year. Using a number of assumptions, the authors sought the an...

Cigarette smoking and sore throats in adults.

Why sore throats don't aggregate against a life, but arms do.

Part IV of Bioethical Prescriptions masterfully joins philosophical imagination and rigour in its discussion of moral questions that arise in allocating scare health care resources. I shall focus on a question on which Kamm’s analysis yields remarkable insight, even though I disagree with some of her conclusions. The question is: Suppose that one must either (a) save all members of a group of A...

An evaluation of the management of patients with sore throats by practice nurses and GPs.

BACKGROUND Practice nurses are increasingly involved in the management of minor illnesses in primary care. However, there has been little work published that evaluates the quality of the service they offer to patients. In our practice (semi-rural, 14,000 patients) a nursing triage system for minor illnesses has been established since 1992. AIM To compare the quality of management of sore thro...

Management of patients with sore throats in relation to guidelines: An interview study in Sweden

OBJECTIVE To explore how a group of Swedish general practitioners (GPs) manage patients with a sore throat in relation to current guidelines as expressed in interviews. DESIGN Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse semi-structured interviews. SETTING Swedish primary care. SUBJECTS A strategic sample of 25 GPs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Perceived management of sore throat patients....