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Table 3 Clinical and health economic characteristics of AOM episodes during the follow-up period

From: Incidence of acute otitis media in children below 6 years of age seen in medical practices in five East European countries

Characteristics

Estonia

Lithuania

Poland

Romania

Slovenia

Total

Clinical signs/symptoms

N a

34

52

131

43

101

361

 Ear Pain/Otalgia, n (%)

30 (88.2)

40 (76.9)

101 (77.1)

33 (76.7)

67 (66.3)

271 (75.1)

 Ear discharge, n (%)

4 (11.8)

2 (3.9)

4 (3.1)

1 (2.3)

7 (6.9)

18 (5.0)

 Hearing loss, n (%)

11 (32.4)

6 (11.5)

3 (2.3)

0 (−)

4 (4.0)

24 (6.7)

 Ear tugging, n (%)

5 (14.7)

1 (1.9)

4 (3.1)

26 (60.5)

15 (14.9)

51 (14.1)

 Perforation of tympanic membrane, n (%)

1 (2.9)

0 (−)

2 (1.5)

0 (−)

5 (5.0)

8 (2.2)

 Fever, n (%)

11 (32.3)

19 (36.5)

77 (58.8)

38 (88.4)

63 (62.4)

208 (57.6)

Hospitalisation and complications

N

35

55

131

43

105

369

 Child referred to hospital due to AOM, n (%)

0 (−)

2 (3.6)

7 (5.3)

0 (−)

1 (1.0)

10 (2.7)

 Was the child hospitalised, n (% of those referred)

-

1 (50.0)

6 (85.7)

-

1 (100.0)

8 (80.0)

 Complications, n (%)

3 (8.6)

0 (−)

3 (2.3)

1 (2.3)

0 (−)

7 (1.9)

Procedures performed b

N

1

0

36

0

3

40

 Adenoidectomy

0 (−)

0 (−)

1 (2.8)

0 (−)

0 (−)

1 (2.5)

 Ventilation tube insertion

1 (100.0)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

1 (2.5)

 Cleaning of tube

0 (−)

0 (−)

36 (100.0)

0 (−)

3 (100.0)

39 (97.5)

Severity score c

N

35

55

131

43

105

369

 1, n (%)

5 (14.3)

2 (3.6)

4 (4.0)

1 (2.4)

5 (5.0)

17 (5.1)

 2, n (%)

10 (28.6)

3 (5.5)

28 (27.7)

0 (−)

11 (10.9)

52 (15.6)

 3, n (%)

5 (14.3)

10 (18.2)

34 (33.7)

5 (12.2)

11 (10.9)

65 (19.5)

 4, n (%)

0 (−)

10 (18.2)

17 (16.8)

23 (56.1)

27 (26.7)

77 (23.1)

 5, n (%)

5 (14.3)

11 (20.0)

10 (9.9)

9 (22.0)

24 (23.8)

59 (17.7)

 6, n (%)

5 (14.3)

13 (23.6)

6 (5.9)

2 (4.9)

20 (19.8)

46 (13.8)

 7, n (%)

5 (14.3)

6 (10.9)

2 (2.0)

1 (2.4)

3 (3.0)

17 (5.1)

 Missing confirmed, n (%)

0 (−)

0 (−)

30 (−)

2 (−)

4 (−)

36 (−)

Caregiver missed work c

N d

16

54

121

43

101

335

 Yes

5 (31.3)

11 (20.4)

30 (24.8)

2 (4.7)

28 (27.7)

76 (22.7)

 No

11 (68.8)

43 (79.6)

91 (75.2)

41 (95.3)

73 (72.3)

259 (77.3)

  1. AOM acute otitis media
  2. N total number of AOM episodes
  3. n (%) number (percentage) of AOM episodes in each group
  4. aTotal number of AOM episodes for which signs/symptoms were recorded during at least one of the visit
  5. bSum of percentages may exceed 100 %, since more than one procedure had been performed
  6. cSum of percentages may exceed 100 % due to rounding
  7. dTotal number of AOM episodes for which health economics questionnaire was available
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