title: Sore throats.
abstract: This work looks at how a nurse practitioner can assess, diagnose and treat a patient that presents to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department with a sore throat. A brief look is taken at the common causes of sore throat. The reader is then introduced to a simple scoring system (McIsaac scoring) to determine whether a patient requires antibiotics to treat their sore throat. A list is then given of alternative diagnoses and how they should be treated.
authors.affiliation: theuknurse@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Summers
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000451:nursing*