Table 1.
Characteristics of the baseline acute otitis media episodes in 2006.
| Baseline episodes in 2006 (N = 283,084) | ||
| Variables a | n | % |
| Age (years) | ||
| 0-2 | 43,404 | 15.3 |
| 3-5 | 114,040 | 40.3 |
| 6-12 | 125,640 | 44.4 |
| Mean (±SD) | 4.7 (±2.8) | |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 154,692 | 54.6 |
| Female | 128,390 | 45.4 |
| Place of treatment | ||
| Clinics | 207,762 | 73.4 |
| Hospital | ||
| Medical center | 21,709 | 7.7 |
| District hospital | 33,614 | 11.9 |
| Regional hospital | 19,999 | 7.1 |
| Specialty of attending physician | ||
| Ear, nose, and throat | 91,061 | 32.2 |
| Pediatrics | 131,001 | 46.3 |
| Family medicine | 14,548 | 5.1 |
| Internal medicine | 3,906 | 1.4 |
| Surgery | 197 | 0.1 |
| Others | 42,371 | 15.0 |
a
Inconsistency between total population and population summed for individual variable was due to missing information.