Clinical practice guideline: Otitis media with effusion

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2004, Pages S95-

  Rosenfeld, Richard M ^a   Culpepper, Larry ^b   Doyle, Karen J ^b   Grundfast, Kenneth M ^b   Hoberman, Alejandro ^b   Kenna, Margaret A ^b   Lieberthal, Allan S ^b   Mahoney, Martin ^b   Wahl, Richard A ^b   Woods Jr , Charles R ^b   Yawn, Barbara ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DECONGESTIVE AGENT;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ALLERGY; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EARDRUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEARING LOSS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDDLE EAR; MYRINGOTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OTOSCOPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOMETRY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LEARNING DISORDERS; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; OTOSCOPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 2942655512     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2004.02.002     Document Type: Review

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