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General Practice Follow-up After Pediatric Ventilation Tube Insertion Is Noninferior to ENT Surveillance: Results from the ConVenTu Trial

MedXY Editorial Team•Nov 19, 2025•news
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– The ConVenTu randomized noninferiority trial randomized 305 children (age 3–10) after ventilation tube (VT) insertion to either GP observation or routine ENT follow-up.

– Two-year audiometric outcomes (change in pure-tone average) in the GP-observed group were noninferior to ENT follow-up (between-group difference 0.16 dB; 1-sided 97.5% CI lower bound −1.52 dB; noninferiority margin 5 dB).

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