Arch Otolaryngol
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Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
How appropriate is the OM6 as a discriminative instrument in children with otitis media?
The OM6 is a 6-item condition-specific handicap measure developed in the United States for children with recurrent acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion. Easy and quick to use, it has high test-retest repeatability and is sensitive to change after ventilation tube insertion. ⋯ The OM6 scores correlate well with global quality-of-life measures and are free from many potential biases. However, OM6 does not adequately reflect disease severity, which may limit its usefulness as a discriminative measure.