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Children with otitis media with a raised temperature and vomiting are more
likely to benefit from immediate treatment with antibiotics than
children with no fever or vomiting. Little and colleagues (p
22) used data from a randomised controlled trial cohort of
antibiotic prescribing strategies for otitis media and identified
predictors of poor outcome. They then assessed benefit from treatment
in these subgroups. Children who did not have raised temperature and
vomiting were unlikely to have poor outcome and unlikely to benefit
from immediate antibiotics.
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