Management of pain in acute otitis media in Finnish primary care.
Most treatment recommendations for acute otitis media favour active use of pain relief medication. These data comprised 3059 Finnish primary care acute otitis media patients. We found that 10.4% of the patients were prescribed or recommended analgesics, which is in contrast to treatment recommendations.
Pulkki
Johanna
J
Department of Bacterial and Inflammatory Diseases, National Public Health Institute, Turku, Finland. johanna.pulkki@ktl.fi
Huikko
Solja
S
Rautakorpi
Ulla-Maija
UM
Honkanen
Pekka
P
Klaukka
Timo
T
Mäkelä
Marjukka
M
Palva
Erkki
E
Roine
Risto
R
Sarkkinen
Hannu
H
Varonen
Helena
H
Huovinen
Pentti
P
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003625:Data Collection; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011320:Primary Health Care
D000700:Analgesics; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal