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Primary Research (e.g. trial) |
Title (lead author) etc: |
A double-blind randomised placebo controlled trial of topical intranasal corticosteroids in 4- to11-year-old children with persistent bilateral otitis media with effusion in primary care (Williamson) 140 pages, Volume 13, number 37 |
DOI |
10.3310/hta13370 |
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Headline: |
Study found that the use of topical intranasal corticosteroids is very unlikely to be a clinically effective treatment for otitis media with effusion in children in the primary care setting |
This report should be referenced as follows: |
Williamson I, Benge S, Barton S, Petrou S, Letley L, Fasey N, et al. A double-blind randomised placebo controlled trial of topical intranasal corticosteroids in 4- to11-year-old children with persistent bilateral otitis media with effusion in primary care. Health Technol Assess 2009;13(37). |
Project ref: |
01/72/02 |
Original project title: |
A double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial of topical nasal steroids in 4-11 year old children with persistent bilateral Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) in primary care |
Chief Investigator: |
Dr Ian Williamson, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Community Clinical Sciences Division, University of Southampton |
Start Date: |
September 2003 |
Date of publication in HTA journal series |
August 2009 |
Cost: |
£600,852 |
MeSH* index primary terms: |
OTITIS-MEDIA-WITH-EFFUSION Q-drug-therapy; STEROIDS Q-administration-&-dosage (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
MeSH* index secondary terms: |
HUMAN; CHILD-PRESCHOOL; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND-METHOD; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL; MEDICAL-AUDIT; EVALUATION-STUDIES; ADMINISTRATION-INTRANASAL; ACOUSTIC-IMPEDENCE-TESTS; TREATMENT-OUTCOME; SENSITIVITY-AND-SPECIFICITY; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
ISRCTN* number: | ISRCTN 38988331 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website: http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN38988331 |
NRR* number, if applicable: |
N0484123693 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive. |
Project Protocol: |
Project protocol (pdf format, 191 kbytes) |
Printed copies of this title despatched: |
102 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month) |
URL of this page: |
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1352 |
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