TY - JOUR T1 - A pain in the neck for steroids JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 393 LP - 393 VL - 55 IS - 514 AU - Michael Moore AU - Paul Little AU - Ian Williamson AU - Greg Warner AU - Richard Coppin Y1 - 2005/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/514/393.2.abstract N2 - We have some concerns regarding the proposal to treat acute pharyngitis with high dose oral steroids.1Kiderman et al suggest that steroids may reduce short-term pain in a selected group of patients with sore throat presenting in primary care.1 The selection criteria for their study are similar to the Centor criteria and thus likely to select a group with higher probability of positive throat swab, better response to antibiotics and higher complication rate.2 Antibiotics were administered at the treating physicians recommendation and all … ER -