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Table 1 Physician management of patients with sore throat in relation to strategy for coping with uncertainty

From: Uncertainty in clinical practice – an interview study with Swedish GPs on patients with sore throat

 

Uncertainty and coping strategies

 

Uncertainty avoided through adherence to guidelines

Uncertainty avoided through clinical picture and CRP

Uncertainty balanced through expanded control

Unstructured and uncertainty prevails

Attitude to guidelines

Guidelines trusted

Guidelines of little concern for clinical practice

Guidelines of little concern for clinical practice

Guidelines trusted

Diagnosis of GAS

Adherent to guidelines

Non-adherent to guidelines

Non-adherent to guidelines

Non-adherent to guidelines

Differential diagnoses (DD) and complications

DD and complications retrieved in guidelines

DD and complications also retrieved outside guidelines

DD and complications retrieved in guidelines

DD and complications also retrieved outside guidelines

Fear of bad outcomes

No fear described

No fear described

Fear described

Fear described

DD and complications possible to identify

DD possible to identify

DD possible to identify

DD possible to identify

DD not possible to identify