PURLs: Rethinking antibiotics for sinusitis: again
Boisselle, C.; Rowland, K.
Journal of Family Practice 61(10): 610-612
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 1533-7294 PMID: 23106063 Document Number: 662151
Previous evidence rejected the need for antibiotics to treat acute rhinosinusitis, unless the symptoms were severe. A new study finds little reason to prescribe them even then.
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