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- Title
Classification of otitis media.
- Authors
Harkness P; Topham J; Harkness, P; Topham, J
- Abstract
<bold>Objectives: </bold>To review the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system of classifying otitis media. To highlight the failings of this system and to propose an alternative (Read version 3).<bold>Study Design: </bold>An historical review of the literature and a presentation of two distinct classification schemes.<bold>Methods: </bold>The advantages and disadvantages of the alternative schemes are analyzed and an algorithm for the classification of otitis media is presented that describes the decisions taken to reach a diagnosis.<bold>Results: </bold>The proposed classification of otitis media as used in the Read Codes thesaurus is more logical than the ICD classification.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The widely used ICD schema of otitis media fails to provide the otologist or general medical practitioner with a logically organized set of terms to describe inflammatory middle ear disease. This article proposes a simple, hierarchical classification that can be used by specialists, generalists and epidemiologists alike.
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 1998, Vol 108, Issue 10, p1539
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
journal article