Otitis media guidelines for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: summary of recommendations.

Introduction: The 2001 Recommendations for clinical care guidelines on the management of otitis media in Aboriginal and Torres Islander populations were revised in 2010. This 2020 update by the Centre of Research Excellence in Ear and Hearing Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children used for the first time the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.

Main Recommendations: We performed systematic reviews of evidence across prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and management.

Agreement between diagnoses of otitis media by audiologists and otolaryngologists in Aboriginal Australian children.

Objectives: To determine the degree of agreement of diagnoses by audiologists and otolaryngologists of otitis media (OM) in Aboriginal children.

Design: Cross-sectional study of agreement between diagnoses.

Setting: Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH), a prospective cohort study of Aboriginal children attending four Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in New South Wales (three metropolitan, one regional) during 2008-2012.