Abstract

The paper ‘Expectations for consultations and antibiotics for respiratory tract infection in primary care; the RTI clinical iceberg’1 has striking workload implications for GPs given that 58% of the UK population surveyed reported an RTI in the preceding 6 months, for which one in five had contacted their GP surgery. It is an important finding that over half of those patients contacting the GP expected antibiotics (53.1%). However, exactly how big the problem …

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