Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics, doctors use the so-called Centor Criteria ...
The Centor criteria are a set of clinical findings that, taken together, may be used as an aid in making the diagnosis of Group A β-haemolytic streptococcus as a cause of a sore throat or tonsillitis.
The Centor criteria are: history of fever, absence of cough, tender anterior cervical lymphadenopathy and tonsillar exudates. Patients with a low Centor score (0-2) are much less likely to respond to ...
Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics, doctors use the so-called Centor Criteria ...
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