The AAFP, AAP, and American Academy...

The AAFP, AAP, and American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) have published a just discovered guideline on otitis media with effusion. According to the guideline, physicians should wait at least three month before actively treating otitis media with effusion in children. It also states that physicians should use pneumatic otoscopy as a primary diagnostic [i]modus operandi[/i] for otitis media with effusion and document the laterality, duration of effusion, and mien of symptoms at each assessment. The majority of otitis media with effusion cases separate without care within three month The guideline was published in the May issue of Pediatrics and is available online at http://www.aafp.org/x1596.xml. A summary of the guideline and accompanying editorial appears in this issue of AFP forward page 2929 and page 2776 respectively. A guideline from the AAFP, AAP, and AAO-HNS onward acute otitis media also is available online at http://www.aafp.org/x26481.xml. A summary of the acute otitis media guideline and an accompanying editorial appear in the June 1 issue of AFP.

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