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RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06114706

Best Assessment of Sore Throat and Antibiotic Prescribing

Sponsor

Vastra Gotaland Region

Enrollment

450 participants

Start Date

Mar 4, 2024

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Pharyngitis

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.

Eligibility

Min Age: 6 Years

Inclusion Criteria5

  • 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 Criteria3

  • 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  • Patient request to be withdrawn from the study.
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Interventions

BEHAVIORALPhysicians assess patients

Physicians are asked to assess patients following the current Swedish guideline

BEHAVIORALNurses assess patients

Nurses are asked to assess patients following the current Swedish guideline

BEHAVIORALPharmacists assess patients

Pharmacists are asked to assess patients following the current Swedish guideline

Locations(4)

Apoteket

Stenungsund, Sweden

Närhälsan Stenungsund Vårdcentral

Stenungsund, Sweden

Praktikertjänst Hälsobrunnen Vårdcentral

Ulricehamn, Sweden

Apoteksgruppen

Ulricehamn, Sweden

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