Immediate antibiotics were beneficial in children with acute otitis media who had fever and vomiting

  • Aldous, Michael B MD, MPH
  • Little, P
  • Gould, C
  • Moore, M

  • 1University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA

    2Little P, Gould C, Moore M, et al. Predictors of poor outcome and benefits from antibiotics in children with acute otitis media: pragmatic randomised trial. BMJ 2002;325:22-25

Source of funding: NHS Regional Research and Development.

For correspondence: Dr P Little, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.[email protected]

Evidence Based Medicine 8(3):p 84, May 2003.
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