ReviewPediatric clinics of North America2009
Acute and chronic otitis media.
Review in Pediatric clinics of North America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Otitis media guidelines for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: summary of recommendations.The Medical journal of Australia · 2021Pooled it
- Bacterial otitis media in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Predominant Bacteria Detected from the Middle Ear Fluid of Children Experiencing Otitis Media: A Systematic Review.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
- The Landscape and Regulatory Determinants of A-to-I RNA Editing in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated From Patients With Urinary Tract and Ear Infections.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Comparative Analysis of Endoscopic and Microscopic Myringoplasty.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2025Article
- Aetiologies of Ear Infections Among Patients Who Visited King Fahad Hospital in Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2024Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Plain Computed Tomography Temporal Bone in Detection of Pre-operative Ossicular Status versus Per-operative Findings in Chronic Otitis Media.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- Biofilm-Forming Bacteria Implicated in Complex Otitis Media in Children in the Post-Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) Era.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Influence of pneumatization on morphology of temporal bone-related vasculatures and their morphometric relationship with ear regions: a computed tomography study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Role of Mastoidectomy with Type 1 Tympanoplasty in Paediatric Patients with Poor Contralateral Ear Status.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022Article
- Effect of Ear Infections on Hearing Ability: A Narrative Review on the Complications of Otitis Media.Cureus · 2022Review
- Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Bacterial Aetiologies of Childhood Otitis Media in Accra, Ghana.Microbiology insights · 2022Article
- Temporal bone pneumatization: A scoping review on the growth and size of mastoid air cell system with age.PloS one · 2022Article
- Immunoglobulins and Transcription Factors in Otitis Media.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Povidone-iodine ear wash and oral cotrimoxazole for chronic suppurative otitis media in Australian aboriginal children: study protocol for factorial design randomised controlled trial.BMC pharmacology & toxicology · 2019Article
- Prevalence of Ear Infections in First Year Children of Primary Schools in A Western Ugandan Community.African journal of biomedical research : AJBR · 2018Article
- Isolation and antimicrobial drug susceptibility pattern of bacterial pathogens from pediatric patients with otitis media in selected health institutions, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a prospective cross-sectional study.BMC ear, nose, and throat disorders · 2018Article
- Prevalence of Middle Ear Infections and Associated Risk Factors in Children under 5 Years in Gasabo District of Kigali City, Rwanda.International journal of pediatrics · 2017Article
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa Activates PKC-Alpha to Invade Middle Ear Epithelial Cells.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Bacterial and Respiratory Viral Interactions in the Etiology of Acute Otitis Media in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected South African Children.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Otitis media (OM) is a common illness in young children. OM has historically been associated with frequent and severe complications. Nowadays it is usually a mild condition that often resolves without treatment. For most children, progression to tympanic membrane perforation and chronic suppurative OM is unusual (low-risk populations); this has led to reevaluation of many interventions that were used routinely in the past. Evidence from a large number of randomized controlled trials can help when discussing treatment options with families. Indigenous children in the United States, Canada, Northern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand experience more OM than other children. In some places, Indigenous children continue to suffer from the most severe forms of the disease. Communities with more than 4% of the children affected by chronic tympanic membrane perforation have a major public health problem (high-risk populations). Higher rates of invasive pneumococcal disease, pneumonia, and chronic suppurative lung disease (including bronchiectasis) are also seen. These children will often benefit from effective treatment of persistent (or recurrent) bacterial infection.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.