Recruitment of patients
sore throat, infection, quinsy
SORE THROAT, SCARLET FEVER, QUINSY, DISEASE, INFECTION, ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
We asked the practices to include 11 consecutive patients aged ≥ 2 years at their first consultation because of a sore throat suggesting an infection, lasting less than two weeks and being at least moderately impairing.The practices should exclude patients with only mild impairment for whom the guideline did not recommend antibiotics. Other exclusion criteria were another disease demanding antibiotics, scarlet fever, quinsy, a personal or family history of acute rheumatic fever, a consuming disease or immunosuppression, or insufficient knowledge of the German language.