Lindell2019

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Lindell2019
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Lindell2019
Author(s) Johanna Lindell
Title Talk on cough: symptom, sign and significance in acute primary care
Editor(s) Carsten Strøby Jensen, Søren Beck Nielsen, Lars Fynbo
Tag(s) EMCA, Medical EMCA, Complaints
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2019
Language English
City Cham
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Pages 61–77
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-90656-0_4
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Howpublished
Book title Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A Collection of One-Health Studies of Antibiotics and Its Social and Health Consequences
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Abstract

This chapter is a conversation analytic study of patients’ complaints about cough during general practice consultations, which is among the most common reasons for prescribing antibiotics. Many of these infections tend to be viral, and so the antibiotic prescriptions may be completely ineffective for the individual patient, but pose a great risk for public health. This chapter looks into cases where patients reiterate the cough complaints following a non-severe diagnosis. This reiteration could be heard as pressure for antibiotics. However, the study concludes that patients do not necessarily intend this, and that doctors can assure them without the offering of a prescription.

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