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A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment
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GAS pharyngitis affects hundreds of millions of individuals globally each year, and over 12 million seek care in the United States annually for sore throat. Clinicians cannot differentiate GAS from other causes of acute pharyngitis based on the… read more… identify very-low risk patients prior to an ambulatory visit could reduce low-yield, unnecessary visits for a most common outpatient condition. We recently … an ambulatory visit could reduce low-yield, unnecessary visits for a most common outpatient condition. We recently … -
Improved diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis using real-time biosurveillance
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Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis, causes more than half a billion cases annually worldwide. Treatment with antibiotics provides symptomatic benefit and reduces complications… read more… was restricted to nine markets with 47000 patient visits for pharyngitis, for a total of 138,910 patient … the original work is properly cited. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 P ro po rt io n P os iti ve 10 20 30 40 50 RLPP … Centor score (0.72), followed by Centor score alone (0.70), and then by RLPP alone (0.57). Conclusions …