Childhood hospitalisation for otitis medi

Hospitalisation with otitis media in early childhood and cognitive function in young adult life: a prevalence study among Danish conscripts

BACKGROUND Otitis media (OM) is a very common condition in children and occurs during years that are critical to the development of learning, literacy, and math skills. Therefore, among a large cohort of Danish conscripts, we aimed to examine the association between hospitalisation with OM in early childhood and cognitive function and educational level in early adulthood. METHODS We conducted...

Epidemiology of severe childhood eye injuries that required hospitalisation.

We conducted a retrospective study of all paediatric ocular injuries that were treated at the Prince of Wales Hospital between October 1991 and January 1997. Of the 60 injuries reviewed, eight (13.3%) resulted in some degree of visual deficit. The mean age was 5.5 years and the average male to female ratio was 2.75:1. The distribution of injuries was as follows: contusions, 29 (48.3%); non-pene...

Infant respiratory infections and later respiratory hospitalisation in childhood.

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) cause significant morbidity in infancy. We sought to quantify the relationship between ARI and development of respiratory morbidity in early childhood. Population-based longitudinal hospitalisation data were linked to perinatal, birth and death records for 145,580 Western Australian children from 1997 to 2002. We conducted Cox regression with sensitivity analy...

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Diagnosis and management of childhood otitis media in primary care

In terms of morbidity in children managed in general practice, middle ear conditions are probably the most important relating to the upper respiratory tract, with 75% of all cases of acute otitis media (AOM) occurring in children under the age of 10 years. One in four children will have an episode of AOM at some time during the first 10 years of life with a peak incidence of diagnosis occurring...