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Assessing Provider Confidence Of Acute Otitis Media Diagnosis And Treatment With An Optical Coherence Tomography Device In The Urgent Care Setting, Meghan Weber, Susan Wolf
Assessing Provider Confidence Of Acute Otitis Media Diagnosis And Treatment With An Optical Coherence Tomography Device In The Urgent Care Setting, Meghan Weber, Susan Wolf
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common causes of pediatric infection worldwide at approximately 350 million visits per year, as well as one of the most challenging illnesses to diagnose for providers (Tong et al., 2018). This dilemma leads to antibiotics being inappropriately prescribed, at a rate of approximately 75% (Islam & Hassinger, 2018). This project sought to explore the impact of implementing an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device in an urgent care setting when assessing otalgia in patients 0 to 17 years of age. The three main objectives of the project were to increase provider confidence …