Decline in otitis media associated ambulatory visits in the US

Tapping into the nationally representative databases from the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kawai et al from Boston queried the number of otitis media associated ambulatory visits in children up to 18 years of age over the years 1997 to 2014. This interval spans years before universal use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) (before 2000), during PCV7 use, and since PCV13 use beginning in late 2010 in children 2 months through 59 months of age.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: The Editors' Perspectives Source Type: research