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PRIMARY CARE: Christopher C Butler, Paul Kinnersley, Kerenza Hood, Mike Robling, Hayley Prout, Stephen Rollnick, and Helen Houston Clinical course of acute infection of the upper respiratory tract in children: cohort study BMJ 2003; 327: 1088-1089 [Full text]

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Childhood URTIs

David Lewis   (12 November 2003)

Childhood URTIs 12 November 2003
David Lewis, General Practitioner Watford WD24 7PH Send response to journal: Re: Childhood URTIs	Butler et al have done a good job in providing a guide for the prognosis of supposed viral URTIs in children aged 6m to 12 years. I would like to know if the authors can provide further information which discriminates between children who will recover quickly and those who may not. For instance, do children who score highly (i.e. sicker kids) on the Canadian virus and flu rating scale have different disease course compared with children with low scores. Competing interests: None declared