Educational Intervention Program for Acute Otitis Media

Presentation Type

Oral and/or Visual Presentation

Presenter Major(s)

Physician Assistant Studies

Mentor Information

Wallace Boeve, boevew@gvsu.edu

Department

Physician Assistant Studies

Location

Kirkhof Center 2259

Start Date

13-4-2011 11:00 AM

End Date

13-4-2011 11:30 AM

Keywords

Health and Wellness, Health, Illness, and Healing

Abstract

Acute otitis media diagnosis has an incidence of 5 million cases per year, thereby creating a heavy burden on the health care system. A quality improvement program that involved an evidence-based, educational intervention during pediatric well-child visits was planned. Nine pediatric clinics that make up the CHAP program in Grand Rapids, MI participated. Infant caregivers were educated and were given a prescription for otic analgesic drops. A survey was used to evaluate the range of implementation strategies among the practices as well as the perceived effectiveness of the intervention. Results showed 77.8% of the clinics performed the educational intervention at the 9 month well-child visit, while 85.7% of the sites felt that families thought the intervention was at least somewhat helpful. Suggestions for improvement were provided and the effectiveness was perceived as favorable. Additional patient-level data will be needed to determine true effectiveness of these interventions.

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Educational Intervention Program for Acute Otitis Media

Kirkhof Center 2259

Acute otitis media diagnosis has an incidence of 5 million cases per year, thereby creating a heavy burden on the health care system. A quality improvement program that involved an evidence-based, educational intervention during pediatric well-child visits was planned. Nine pediatric clinics that make up the CHAP program in Grand Rapids, MI participated. Infant caregivers were educated and were given a prescription for otic analgesic drops. A survey was used to evaluate the range of implementation strategies among the practices as well as the perceived effectiveness of the intervention. Results showed 77.8% of the clinics performed the educational intervention at the 9 month well-child visit, while 85.7% of the sites felt that families thought the intervention was at least somewhat helpful. Suggestions for improvement were provided and the effectiveness was perceived as favorable. Additional patient-level data will be needed to determine true effectiveness of these interventions.