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Comparative hearing outcomes of Stapedotomy and hearing aid rehabilitation in otosclerosis. [PDF]
Eur Arch OtorhinolaryngolAbstract Purpose This prospective, non-randomized intervention study aimed to compare hearing outcomes and patient satisfaction between stapedotomy and hearing aid rehabilitation in individuals with untreated otosclerosis. Methods
Björsne A, Dahlin Redfors Y, Finizia C.
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Musicality as a Health-Relevant Factor for Hearing Outcomes. [PDF]
JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck SurgThis Viewpoint discusses the need for new tools for early risk detection of age-related hearing loss and precision medicine in hearing health.
Nayak S, Moberly AC, Tamati TN.
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Outcomes With a Self-Fitting Hearing Aid [PDF]
Trends in Hearing, 2018 Self-fitting hearing aids (SFHAs)—devices that enable self-directed threshold measurements leading to a prescribed hearing aid (HA) setting, and fine-tuning, without the need for professional support—are now commercially available. This study examined outcomes obtained with one commercial SFHA, the Companion (SoundWorld Solutions), when support was ...
Keidser, Gitte, Convery, Elizabeth
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Predictors of Hearing-Aid Outcomes
Trends in Hearing, 2017 Over 360 million people worldwide suffer from disabling hearing loss. Most of them can be treated with hearing aids. Unfortunately, performance with hearing aids and the benefit obtained from using them vary widely across users. Here, we investigate the reasons for such variability.
Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda +5 more
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Cochlear implantation in the elderly: surgical and hearing outcomes [PDF]
BMC Surgery, 2013 At the present time, 50 to 60% of the population above 70 years of age suffers from a hearing impairment and from 0.6 to 1.1% has a severe to profound loss, which cannot benefit from an hearing aid. Moreover, it is expected that this prevalence will grow by more than two-fold in the next 40 years.
Alice, Benatti +4 more
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Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss [PDF]
Ear & Hearing, 2015 The primary objective of this article was to describe recruitment, data collection, and methods for a longitudinal, multicenter study involving children with bilateral mild to severe hearing loss. The goals of this research program were to characterize the developmental outcomes of children with mild to severe bilateral hearing loss during infancy and ...
J Bruce, Tomblin +5 more
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Modeling and Predicting Hearing Aid Outcome [PDF]
Trends in Amplification, 2003 Following a brief tutorial on the application of factor analysis to hearing aid outcome measures, three studies of hearing aid outcome measures in elderly adults are presented and analyzed. Two of the studies were completed at Indiana University (IU-1 and IU-2), and one was a collaborative multisite study by the Veterans Administration and the National
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Outcomes of Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Devices for People with Hearing Loss: A Review [PDF]
Journal of Audiology and Otology, 2018 As the population of those with mild to moderate hearing loss increases the need remains for amplification solutions. There is a trend to offer alternative amplification options beyond traditional hearing aids. Due to reduced medical risk associated with the most common types of hearing loss (i.e., presbycusis and noise induced), many individuals with ...
Tran, Nicole R., Manchaiah, Vinaya
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Assessment of Hearing Aids Outcomes for Patients With Hearing Loss
Ramathibodi Medical Journal, 2019 Background: Age-related hearing loss is a vital problem that impacts daily living including communication, socialization, and wellbeing. To be fitted with appropriate hearing aids can certainly improve quality of life. Therefore, it is essential to develop a set of indicators that will be used to measure hearing aids outcomes. Objectives: To ...
Rattinan Tiravanitchakul +3 more
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Expectations, Prefitting Counseling, and Hearing Aid Outcome
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2009 Background: Data suggest that having high expectations about hearing aids results in better overall outcome. However, some have postulated that excessively high expectations will result in disappointment and thus poor outcome. It has been suggested that counseling patients with unrealistic expectations about hearing aids prior to fitting may be ...
Saunders, Gabrielle H; id_orcid 0000-0002-9997-0845 +2 more
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