Table 1.

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

	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