Status:
RECRUITING
Best Assessment of Sore Throat and Antibiotic Prescribing
Lead Sponsor:
Vastra Gotaland Region
Collaborating Sponsors:
Göteborg University
Conditions:
Pharyngitis
Eligibility:
All Genders
6+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief 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 t...
Detailed Description
Today patients appear either at a PHC centre or at the Pharmacy. The Pharmacy may provide advice on analgesic or refer the patient to a PHC centre. At the PHC centre, the patient may first appear to t...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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
- 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- Patient request to be withdrawn from the study.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 4 2024
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 31 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
450 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06114706
Start Date
March 4 2024
End Date
December 31 2026
Last Update
April 26 2024
Active Locations (4)
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1
Apoteket
Stenungsund, Sweden, 4430
2
Närhälsan Stenungsund Vårdcentral
Stenungsund, Sweden, 44430
3
Praktikertjänst Hälsobrunnen Vårdcentral
Ulricehamn, Sweden, 52337
4
Apoteksgruppen
Ulricehamn, Sweden