The Evaluation and Treatment of Children with Acute Otitis Media

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-70

  Bhetwal, Narayan ^a   McConaghy, John R ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AURALGAN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEPTAVALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE 7; IBUPROFEN; MACROLIDE; NOSE DROPS; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HEPTAVALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EAR INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASTOIDITIS; META ANALYSIS; MYRINGOTOMY; OTALGIA; OTOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOMETRY; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANALGESICS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34247624101     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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