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Q What is the effectiveness of immediate, delayed, or no prescribing of antibiotics for acute infective conjunctivitis?
METHODS
Design:
factorial 3×2×2 randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
{concealed}.*
Blinding:
unblinded.
Follow up period:
2 weeks.
Setting:
30 general practices in the UK.
Patients:
307 adults and children ⩾1 year of age (mean age 28 y, 57% women and girls) with acute infective conjunctivitis. Exclusion criteria were systemic unwellness requiring oral antibiotics, recent antibiotic use, chronic infective eye disease, recent eye surgery, or allergy to chloramphenicol.
Intervention:
immediate prescription of antibiotics (chloramphenicol eye drops every 2 h for 2 d, then 4 times/d) (n = 104), delayed prescription of …
Footnotes
↵* Information provided by author.
For correspondence: Dr H A Everitt, University of Southampton, Southampton UK. hae1{at}soton.ac.uk
Source of funding: no external funding.