Diagnostic methods and written advice for acute otitis media in primary health care.

Veronica Frey EsgårdIda LindmanAnja Maria BraendGuro Haugen FossumThorbjörn LundbergAnna B Moberg Lena NordemanChrysoula PapachristodoulouPär-Daniel Sundvall

Published in: Scandinavian journal of primary health care (2024)

Swedish physicians both used and had greater access to the significantly better diagnostic methods compared with Norwegian physicians while the opposite applied to the use of written information. The GPs used pneumatic otoscopy and pneumatic otomicroscopy to a greater extent than STs. Compared with 2012, the Swedish physicians now more frequently used pneumatic otoscopy.

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