Improving antibiotic prescribing for children with ear discharge - we need your help

Researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Southampton are looking for GPs and nurse practitioners nationwide to help recruit 399 children to a study comparing antibiotic treatments for Acute Otitis Media with discharge (AOMd).

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It is believed that nearly all children with AOM or AOMd in the UK are treated with oral antibiotics. It may be that alternative treatments such as an antibiotic eardrop or delayed oral antibiotics could be at least as effective as immediate oral antibiotics for children with AOMd.

With your help we will recruit children aged ≥12 months to <16 years from September 2018 to July 2020. To help you recruit, we are using a cutting-edge, secure electronic platform that automatically integrates with GP electronic medical records to help you through the process and avoid duplicate data entry.

If you think your practice would be interested in supporting the first national trial of its kind, please email rest-study@bristol.ac.uk.

Together we can provide the evidence to improve the treatment of AOMd. Thank you.