Article Text
Therapeutics/Prevention
Cohort study
General practices that reduce antibiotic prescribing for self-limiting respiratory tract infections by 10% can expect to see one extra patient with pneumonia each year and one peritonsillar abscess each decade
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Footnotes
Competing interests CCB has carried out studies of antibiotic use in the community and holds several grants in the field.
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