Medical decision analysis: Indications for tympanostomy tubes in RAOM by age at first episode

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-56

  Higgins, Thomas S ^a   McCabe, Steven J ^b   Bumpous, Jeffrey M ^c   Martinez, Serge ^c  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OTITIS MEDIA; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37349114066     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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