About half of children under age 3 whose parents suspected acute otitis media do not have the diagnosis; restless sleep, ear rubbing, crying, irritability and fever are not predictive

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Eugene Leibovitz. Evid Based Med. 2010 Dec.

. 2010 Dec;15(6):186-7.

doi: 10.1136/ebm1129. Epub 2010 Sep 22.

¹ Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel. eugenel@bgu.ac.il

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