Adolescent and Adult Pharyngitis: More Than “Strep Throat” Comment on “Large-Scale Validation of the Centor and McIsaac Scores to Predict Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis” Adolescent and Adult Pharyngitis

Centor RM. — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this issue of the Archives, Fine and colleagues report a major validation of clinical prediction rules for predicting group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. They examine the prediction model that I and my research team first reported in 1981 and the modification (incorporating age into the decision rule) that McIsaac et al reported in 1998. This validation confirms a recent meta-analysis that arrived at the same finding.

JAMA Internal Medicine: Pediatric Otolaryngology Topic Collection

Adolescent and Adult Pharyngitis: More Than “Strep Throat” Comment on “Large-Scale Validation of the Centor and McIsaac Scores to Predict Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis” Adolescent and Adult Pharyngitis