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Clinical Otolaryngology

Reports summarize clinical otolaryngology study results from P. Joice and co-researchers

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, February 12th, 2009

According to a study from Scotland, "No published data exists to support the belief that nose picking contributes to recurrent idiopathic paediatric epistaxis. If nose picking is implicated then there may be a higher incidence of epistaxis on the side of the dominant hand."

"The objective of the study was to determine whether nose picking has a significant role in paediatric epistaxis by comparing hand dominance and side of epistaxis. A prospective, consecutive cohort of new epistaxis referrals to a tertiary paediatric centre over a 14-month period were assessed for hand dominance and reported side of the epistaxis. The presence of septal excoriation, crusting and...

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