ALLMedicine™ Pharyngitis Center

Jun 29th, 2022 - Data on pediatric antibiotic prescribing and utilization practices at urgent care centers (UCC) remain limited. In this study, an electronic medical record-based review of UCC encounters for respiratory tract infections (RTI) of patients belonging...

Jun 20th, 2022 - 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: Treatment of Streptococcal Pharyngitis: Then and Now.|2022|Kumar P,Gupta P,|drug therapy,drug therapy,

Jun 16th, 2022 - Urgent care (UC; a convenient site to receive care for ambulatory-sensitive) centers conditions; however, UC clinicians showed the highest rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among outpatient settings according to national billing data....

Jun 15th, 2022 - Acute infectious conjunctivitis is characterized by ocular redness and discharge, and is a common clinical entity. Evidence-based tools to aid the clinical diagnosis of viral vs bacterial conjunctivitis are lacking and may contribute to overprescr...

Jun 11th, 2022 - The study tested the hypothesis that human mobility may be a potential factor affecting reductions in droplet-transmissible pediatric infectious diseases (PIDs) during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic mitigation period in 2020. An ...

Mar 29th, 2014 - Several guidelines for the management of respiratory tract infections in children are available in Italy, as well as in other European countries and the United States of America. However, poor adherence to guidelines and the sustained inappropriat...

Nov 20th, 2013 - Most upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses and require no antibiotics. This clinical report focuses on antibiotic prescribing strategies for bacterial upper respiratory tract infections, including acute otitis media, acute bacte...

Oct 24th, 2012 - The guideline is intended for use by healthcare providers who care for adult and pediatric patients with group A streptococcal pharyngitis. The guideline updates the 2002 Infectious Diseases Society of America guideline and discusses diagnosis and...

May 26th, 2022 - The primary objective of this study is to establish the non-inferiority in vertebral compression fracture (VCF) incidence at 6 months between single-fraction and two-fraction sSRS. Other objectives are to to evaluate the 12-month impact of single-...

May 24th, 2022 - Comprehensive outpatient treatment was based on standard clinical guidelines, and symptomatic treatment was performed. On the first day of diagnosis, patients were prescribed complex antibacterial therapy on the basis of possible causative agents....

May 18th, 2022 - Purpose: Molecular-based, nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), have been proposed as a diagnostic solution for streptococcal pharyngitis. Indeed, available data suggest that NAATs have similar performance to conventional culture testing, and ...

May 5th, 2022 - In this multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind stuy in which patients with acute pharyngitis will receive Myramistin™ / Placebo, which is provided as a spray. Patients will be randomised at Visit 1 on a 1:1:1:1 basis to one of ...

Apr 25th, 2022 - Duration per participant is up to 4 days.

May 2nd, 2022 - Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) have an increased risk of vaso-occlusive episodes (VOE) after exposure to corticosteroids, according to a French population-based study. Those taking systemic corticosteroids were nearly four times more like...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Key clinical point: Sinusitis, pharyngitis, and acute respiratory burden all raised the likelihood of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Major finding: Acute sinusitis (odds ratio [OR], 1.

Sep 14th, 2021 - In North America and Europe, penicillin allergy is the most common drug-allergy label. 1 Carrying a penicillin-allergy label, which has recently gained more attention in health care systems, leads to suboptimal outcomes, increased use of broad-spec.

Aug 31st, 2021 - Vinod Chandran, MBBS, MD, DM, PhD Identifying risk factors for onset of Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) is a major unmet need. Comparing potential risk factors for the diagnosis of PsA, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is of in.

Aug 28th, 2021 - Key clinical point: A previous diagnosis of gout, uveitis, metabolic and lifestyle factors like obesity, alcohol consumption, and infections like pharyngitis and skin infections were potential risk factors for psoriatic arthritis (PsA), whereas st.