The Effect of Amoxicillin in Adult Patients Presenting to Primary Care with Acute Cough Predicted to Have Pneumonia or a Combined Viral-Bacterial Infection

• প্রধান লেখক: Robin Bruyndonckx (লেখক), Beth Stuart (লেখক), Paul Little (লেখক), Niel Hens (লেখক), Margareta Ieven (লেখক), Christopher C. Butler (লেখক), Theo J. M. Verheij (লেখক), Herman Goossens (লেখক), Samuel Coenen (লেখক), The GRACE Project Group (লেখক)
• বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
• প্রকাশিত: MDPI AG, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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While most cases of acute cough are self-limiting, antibiotics are prescribed to over 50%. This proportion is inappropriately high given that benefit from treatment with amoxicillin could only be demonstrated in adults with pneumonia (based on chest radiograph) or combined viral-bacterial infection...