Otitis Media in Children

Abstract

The frequency of otitis media is one of a number of factors causing physicians to seek out the most cost-effective clinical strategies for managing the condition. It is estimated that, by the time they reach two years of age, all the children in the United States currently under that age will have had a total of 9.3 million episodes of acute otitis media,¹ and that approximately 17 percent of children have three or more episodes during a six-month period.² Frequent episodes of otitis disrupt child-care arrangements and work schedules and generate parental anxiety and stress. The annual cost of the . . .