Antibiotic modulation of mucins in otitis media; should this change our approach to watchful waiting?

Should watchful waiting be used more often for acute otitis media?

Antibiotic treatment vs. watchful waiting in non severe acute otitis media: a retrospective study from an emergency department

Objective. To evaluate the impact on antibiotic prescriptions for Acute Otitis Media (AOM) in the in Pediatric Emergency Department (PED), of the introduction of the observation option for selected patients younger than 14 years with uncomplicated AOM. Methods. Retrospective study of those children aged younger than 14 years diagnosed with AOM, in the PED of a tertiary teaching hospital in the ...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Watchful Waiting

Antibiotics versus placebo or watchful waiting for acute otitis media: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

BACKGROUND Recommendations on withholding antibiotics in children with acute otitis media (AOM) have been inadequately implemented in clinical practice. OBJECTIVES We evaluated the role of prescribing antibiotics for AOM. METHODS We performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that were retrieved from searches performed in the PubMed and Cochrane databases, and compared ...