Assessment of acute otitis externa and otitis media with effusion performance measures in otolaryngology practices

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Patel, Milesh M ^a   Eisenberg, Lee ^b   Witsell, David ^a,c   Schulz, Kristine A ^a  

^a AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY   (United States)

^b ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALUMINUM ACETATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN PLUS DEXAMETHASONE; CORTISPORIN; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; OFLOXACIN; STEROID; VOSOL;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTERNAL OTITIS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; OTALGIA; OTOSCOPY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

EID: 52349102849     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.07.030     Document Type: Article

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