Answers In Search Of Questions of the nonantibiotic management occurred in three of the
nine participating countries? The value of international studies is illustrated precisely by …

Background: Acute otitis media is the most common childhood infection for which antibiotics
are prescribed in the United States. In children, treating otitis media, which includes both …

H IPPOCRATES, it isclaimed,'was ic. This last finding needs to be inter-with initial
symptomatic treat] the first to describe otitis media, preted with caution, as the authors point …

OBJECTIVES On completing this chapter, the reader will be able to 1. Distinguish
bacteriologic and clinical outcomes in acute otitis media (AOM). 2. Appreciate the limitations …

The report in this issue by Bartelds, et al. entitled" Acute Otitis Media in Adults: A Report from
the International Primary Care Network" demonstrates, as did previous work by the same …

that, during the initial treatment of acute otitis media, antimicrobials have “minimal to modest”
beneficial effects, compared with observation alone, on pain and fever resolution at two …

Several factors influence antimicrobial selection when treating otitis media. In addition to
good in vitro activity against common pathogens, the drug should be well-absorbed with …

In Reply.—Dr Rosenfeld is concerned with that portion of our article that covers OME. He
suggests that four studies 1-4 used subtherapeutic antibiotic dosages and should therefore …

Objective To assess the views of community physicians on management of acute otitis
media (AOM) without antibiotics and their willingness to support research on this issue …

Twenty-five published trials of antibacterial therapy for acute otitis media were reviewed
according to 13 methodologic standards for the design of clinical trials. Randomized …