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PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 1 January 2000, pp. 159

Antibiotic Use and Parental Home Otoscopy

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To the Editor.

Bauchner et al1 and others2 have called attention to injudicious antibiotic use, prompting calls for physician, as well as parent, reeducation. Confronted with an unhappy child who may have acute otitis media (AOM) and facing exhausted parents, physicians may find themselves under pressure to prescribe.3,4 Excessive prescriptions for antibiotics increase costs, engender toxicity, and promote relative and absolute resistance to antimicrobials. More stringent diagnostic criteria, shorter courses of medication, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]