Are patient views about antibiotics related to clinician perceptions, management and outcome? A multi-country study in outpatients with acute cough.

<h4>Background</h4>Outpatients with acute cough who expect, hope for or ask for antibiotics may be more unwell, benefit more from antibiotic treatment, and be more satisfied with care when they are prescribed antibiotics. Clinicians may not accurately identify those patients.<h4>Ob...

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Main Authors: Samuel Coenen, Nick Francis, Mark Kelly, Kerenza Hood, Jacqui Nuttall, Paul Little, Theo J M Verheij, Hasse Melbye, Herman Goossens, Christopher C Butler, GRACE Project Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24194845/pdf/?tool=EBI