ReviewGMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery2016
Evidence and evidence gaps in tinnitus therapy.
Review in GMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline
- Smartphone Apps in the Context of Tinnitus: Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
- A multidisciplinary European guideline for tinnitus: diagnostics, assessment, and treatment.HNO · 2019Guideline
- Digital Tinnitus Counseling in Clinical Practice: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.Audiology research · 2025Article
- Whole-Body Cryostimulation as an Adjunctive Treatment for Neurophysiologic Tinnitus and Associated Disorders: Preliminary Evidence from a Case Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Current and Emerging Therapies for Chronic Subjective Tinnitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Article
- In Reply.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2022Article
- Chronic Tinnitus.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2022Review
- Personalization of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Subjective Tinnitus.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Article
- Hearing Aid Fitting in Tinnitus: A Scoping Review of Methodological Aspects and Effect on Tinnitus Distress and Perception.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Methodological Aspects of Randomized Controlled Trials for Tinnitus: A Systematic Review and How a Decision Support System Could Overcome Barriers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Clinical trials in otology: Examining trends and framework for prioritization.Journal of otology · 2021Article
- A State-of-Art Review of Digital Technologies for the Next Generation of Tinnitus Therapeutics.Frontiers in digital health · 2021Review
- Bimodal Auditory Electrical Stimulation for the Treatment of Tinnitus: Preclinical and Clinical Studies.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021Article
- Contemporary Review of Smartphone Apps for Tinnitus Management and Treatment.Brain sciences · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
A nearly endless number of procedures has been tried and in particular sold for the treatment of tinnitus, unfortunately they have not been evaluated appropriately in an evidence-based way. A causal therapy, omitting the tinnitus still does not exist, actually it cannot exist because of the various mechanisms of its origin. However or perhaps because of that, medical interventions appear and reappear like fashion trends that can never be proven by stable and reliable treatment success. This contribution will discuss and acknowledge all current therapeutic procedures and the existing or non-existing evidence will be assessed. Beside external evidence, the term of evidence also encompasses the internal evidence, i.e. the experience of the treating physician and the patient's needs shall be included. While there is no evidence for nearly all direct procedures that intend modulating or stimulating either the cochlea or specific cervical regions such as the auditory cortex, there are therapeutic procedures that are acknowledged in clinical practice and have achieved at least a certain degree of evidence and generate measurable effect sizes. Those are in particular habituation therapy and psychotherapeutic measures, especially if they are combined with concrete measures for improved audio perception (hearing aids, CI, hearing therapies).
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