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This codelist will be used in conjunction with codelists for antibiotics recommended for treatment of Group A Strep.\n\n\n© University of Oxford for the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science 2025\\. This work may be copied freely for non\\-commercial research and study.\n\n", "implementation": null, "publications": null, "validation": null, "citation_requirements": null, "created": "2026-01-26T23:17:26.882231Z", "author": "OpenSAFELY", "collections": [ { "name": "OpenCodelist", "value": 31 }, { "name": "Phenotype Library", "value": 18 } ], "tags": null, "organisation": { "id": 1, "slug": "opensafely", "name": "OpenSAFELY" }, "world_access": 1, "updated": "2026-01-26T23:17:26.877221Z", "references": [ { "url": "https://github.com/opensafely/codelist-development/issues/256", "title": "GitHub issue" } ], "signed_off": [], "methodology": "All codes with the key words 'sore throat' and 'pharyngitis' and 'tonsillitis' were identified and reviewed manually with the appropriate codes mapped.\n\n\nInclusion Criteria for Codes \\- \nCodes indicating: Streptococcal acute sore throat/pharyngitis/tonsillitis, Bacterial acute sore throat/pharyngitis/tonsillitis, Acute sore throat/pharyngitis/tonsillitis where no specific cause listed\n\n\nExclusion Criteria for Codes \\- \nCodes indicating: sore throat/pharyngitis/tonsillitis where other cause specified e.g. viral pharyngitis, sore throat/pharyngitis/tonsillitis where non Group A Strep related \\- e.g. pneumococcal, chronic tonsillitis sore throat/pharyngitis/tonsillitis\n\n", "coding_system": [ { "name": "SNOMED CT codes", "value": 9 } ], "open_codelist_id": "opensafely/group-a-streptococcal-sore-throat", "source_reference": "https://www.opencodelists.org/codelist/opensafely/group-a-streptococcal-sore-throat/2924ced0", "concept_information": [ { "concept_id": 8653, "concept_version_id": 16138, "concept_name": "opensafely/group-a-streptococcal-sore-throat/2924ced0", "coding_system": { "id": 9, "name": "SNOMED CT codes", "description": "SNOMED CT codes" }, "phenotype_id": "PH3437", "phenotype_version_id": 8476, "phenotype_name": "Group A Streptococcal sore throat / tonsillitis", "code_attribute_header": 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