Acute Otitis Media

Five-Day Antibiotic Regimen Offers Similar Outcomes To 10-Day Regimen

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 8th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Children with acute otitis media (AOM) do just as well with five days of antibiotics as 10 days, say physicians in a private pediatric practice.

Outcomes were the same in groups given five, seven, or 10 days of antibiotics, except for children who had had AOM in the preceding month, said M.E. Pichichero and colleagues in Rochester, New York.

They studied outcomes in 2,172 children who received varying durations of antibiotics over the course of one year. Their results were published in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. Prescribed antibiotics included amoxicillin (61.9% of patients),...

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