Antibiotic use for otitis media: Oral, topical, or none?

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 833-842

  Rosenfeld, Richard M ^a,b,c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Department of Otolaryngology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFDINIR; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFPROZIL; CEFTIBUTEN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPRODEX; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; IBUPROFEN; LORACARBEF; NEOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PEDIAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; POLYMYXIN; STEROID;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORRHEA; OTOTOXICITY; PAIN; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

EID: 10644229320     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-20041201-09     Document Type: Review

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