The Kalgoorlie Otitis Media Research Project: Rationale, methods, population characteristics and ethical considerations

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-71

  Lehmann, Deborah ^a   Arumugaswamy, Ashwini ^a   Elsbury, Dimity ^a   Finucane, Janine ^a   Stokes, Annette ^a   Monck, Ruth ^a   Jeffries Stokes, Christine ^a   McAullay, Daniel ^a   Coates, Harvey ^b   Stanley, Fiona J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Ethical guidelines; Follow up bias; Indigenous population; Otitis media

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; AUDIOMETRY; AUSTRALIA; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; CROWDING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MOTHER; NASOPHARYNX; OBSTETRIC CARE; OTITIS MEDIA; PARENTAL SMOKING; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYMPANOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OTITIS MEDIA; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 37349032225     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00891.x     Document Type: Article

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