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cord-275440-fl4dsu7d	Turnidge, John	Responsible Prescribing for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections	2012-10-10		.txt	text/plain	6473	375	45	Generic strategies, including eliciting patient expectations, avoiding the term 'just a virus', providing a value-for-money consultation, providing verbal and written information, empowering patients, conditional prescribing, directed education campaigns, and emphasis on symptomatic treatments, should be used as well as discussion of alternative medicines when relevant. Detailed strategies for acute sinusitis have not been worked out but restricting antibacterial prescribing to certain clinical complexes is currently recommended by several authorities because of the high natural resolution rate. Given that resistance to antibacterials in the common bacterial respiratory pathogens, especially Streptococcus pneumoniae, is increasing worldwide, [5] it is time to critically review prescribing practices in patients with URTI and find methods for not prescribing antibacterials to patients who are unlikely to benefit. [27] There is a difference between the bacteriology of previously untreated acute otitis media and that of patients with persistent infection, [28] resistant bacteria being more common in the latter.	./cache/cord-275440-fl4dsu7d.txt	./txt/cord-275440-fl4dsu7d.txt