Socio-economic status and hearing loss in chronic suppurative otitis media in Nigeria

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-296

  Lasisi, Akeem Olawale ^a   Sulaiman, Olayinka A ^b   Afolabi, Olushola A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

CORRELATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; ONSET AGE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OTORRHEA; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URBAN AREA;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NIGERIA; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH;

AFRICA; IBADAN; NIGERIA; OYO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 36448947211     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532807X245689     Document Type: Article

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