Are smokers with acute cough in primary care prescribed antibiotics more often, and to what benefit? An observational study in 13 European countries.

Little is known about actual clinical practice regarding management of smokers compared with ex-smokers and nonsmokers presenting with acute cough in primary care, and whether a lower threshold for prescribing antibiotics benefits smokers. This was a multicentre 13-country European prospective obser...

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Auteurs principaux: Stanton, N, Hood, K, Kelly, M, Nuttall, J, Gillespie, D, Verheij, T, Little, P, Godycki-Cwirko, M, Goossens, H, Butler, C
Format: Journal article
Langue:English
Publié: 2010
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Résumé:Little is known about actual clinical practice regarding management of smokers compared with ex-smokers and nonsmokers presenting with acute cough in primary care, and whether a lower threshold for prescribing antibiotics benefits smokers. This was a multicentre 13-country European prospective observational study of primary care clinician management of acute cough in consecutive immunocompetent adults presenting with an acute cough of