Comparative studies on hearing aid selection and fitting procedures: a review of the literature
| Autor: | Bert Maat, Wouter A. Dreschler, Louw Feenstra, Mick Metselaar, Hans Verschuure |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Hearing aid
medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss medicine.medical_treatment Population MEDLINE Audiology law.invention Hearing Aids Randomized controlled trial law otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans education Hearing Disorders Selection (genetic algorithm) education.field_of_study Management science business.industry Hearing Tests Outcome measures General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology Head and neck surgery medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 265(1), 21-9. SPRINGER European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 265(1), 21-29. Springer-Verlag |
| ISSN: | 1434-4726 0937-4477 |
| Popis: | Although a large number of fitting procedures have been developed and are nowadays generally applied in modern hearing aid fitting technology, little is known about their effectiveness in comparison with each other. This paper argues the need for comparative validation studies on hearing aid fitting procedures based on the design of a randomized clinical trial and carried out in a large-scale clinical population. These studies are hard to conduct but can provide detailed information on the various aspects of the rehabilitation with hearing aids. The design of several recently reported comparative studies of hearing aid fitting procedures will be reviewed. This gives rise to a number of comments on aspects like, study design, composition of the study population and definition of outcome measures rather than on the outcome or conclusions of these studies themselves. |
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