title: Acute otitis media severity of symptom score in a tympanocentesis study.
abstract: We followed symptoms of children with acute otitis media (AOM), who were enrolled in a clinical trial that included a baseline tympanocentesis. We observed marked and rapid improvement in symptom scores after tympanocentesis. Although symptom scores (measured by the AOM-SOS) correlated with overall clinical assessment and bacteriologic outcome, the early effect of tympanocentesis rendered the AOM-SOS less useful as a primary outcome measure.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. nader.shaikh@chp.edu
authors.forename: Nader
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shaikh
authors.forename: Elaine E L
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Adriano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arguedas
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dagan
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Soley
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Echols
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D019152:Paracentesis / Q000379:methods*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery*