Best Assessment of Sore Throat and Antibiotic Prescribing
ConditionPharyngitis
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age6+
SponsorVastra Gotaland Region
About this trial
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 criteria
Qualifiers
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.
Disqualifiers
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Patient request to be withdrawn from the study.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Physicians assess patients
- Nurses assess patients
- Pharmacists assess patients
Treatment groups
450 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Vastra Gotaland Region
Lead sponsor
Göteborg University
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov