Trends in Acute Otitis Media-Related Health Care Utilization by Privately Insured Young Children in the United States, 1997-2004

The goal was to estimate the population effect of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on rates of acute otitis media-related ambulatory visits and antibiotic prescriptions for 500,000 person-years of observations for children

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2008-02, Vol.121 (2), p.253-260
Main Authors: Zhou, Fangjun, Shefer, Abigail, Kong, Yuan, Nuorti, J. Pekka
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Ambulatory Care - trends
Ambulatory Care - utilization
Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
Antibiotics
Bacterial diseases
Biological and medical sciences
Children & youth
Drug Utilization - trends
Ear diseases
Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology
Ent and stomatologic bacterial diseases
Female
General aspects
Health care
Health services utilization
Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Immunization
Infant
Infectious diseases
Insurance, Health
Linear Models
Male
Medical sciences
Meningococcal Vaccines
Non tumoral diseases
Otitis Media - drug therapy
Otitis Media - epidemiology
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Pediatrics
Pneumococcal Vaccines
Private Sector
Retrospective Studies
Streptococcus pneumoniae
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:The goal was to estimate the population effect of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on rates of acute otitis media-related ambulatory visits and antibiotic prescriptions for 500,000 person-years of observations for children
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.2007-0619