Grommets (ventilation tubes) for recurrent acute otitis media in children

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Lau, Loretta ^a   Mick, Paul ^b   Venekamp, Roderick P ^c   Schilder, Anne G M ^d   Nunez, Desmond A ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADENOIDECTOMY; ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; NUMBER NEEDED TO TREAT TO BENEFIT; NUMBERS NEEDED TO TREAT; OTORRHEA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85041719972     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012017     Document Type: Article

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