Responsiveness of scales to clinical change
AOM
Of the 188 children with day 7 GP assessment data, 113 (60%) had resolved AOM and 75 (40%) had unresolved AOM. Both the AOM-SOS and AOM FS demonstrated responsiveness in that scores decreased in conjunction with expected clinical improvement between day 0 and day 14, with some within-patient variability. However, when the change in scores was stratified by whether AOM was resolved or persistent at the day 7, the decrease in scores occurred regardless of whether AOM had resolved by day 7 or not (