Best Assessment of Sore Throat and Antibiotic Prescribing (NCT06114706) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Best Assessment of Sore Throat and Antibiotic Prescribing
Sweden450 participantsStarted 2024-03-04
Plain-language summary
This project aims to investigate if an organisational change of patient flow away from medical practitioners can reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in patients attending with a sore throat as the main complaint.
Who can participate
Age range6 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* The patient is contacting/attending PHC centre or Pharmacy presenting with a sore throat as the main complaint.
* Male or female, aged ≥6 years.
* Fluent in Swedish (reading, writing, conversational) (applicable to caregivers/parents/guardians in case of children).
* Mental state such that he or she can understand and give informed consent to participation in the study by signing the Information and Consent Form.
* Provision of signed and dated Informed Consent Form.
Exclusion Criteria:
* The illness episode is classified as potentially complicated or potentially critically ill
* Presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in a patient first appearing at the PHC in a cluster where the assessment is supposed to be done by the pharmacists. The patient will not be sent to the pharmacist in case of presence of SARS-CoV-2-virus.
* Patient request to be withdrawn from the study.