Otitis media: The need for a new paradigm in medical education

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1731-1733

  Varrasso, Denia A ^a,b  

^a New York State Otitis Project   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHEMA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; OTOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYMPTOM; TYMPANOMETRY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; OTITIS MEDIA; PEDIATRICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCOPY; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 33750096020     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-2794     Document Type: Note

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