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ArticleTrends in hearing

Role of Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials in Reducing the Age at Hearing Aid Fitting in Children With Hearing Loss Identified by Newborn Hearing Screening.

Kinjal Mehta, Peter Watkin, Margaret Baldwin, Josephine Marriage, Merle Mahon, Deborah Vickers

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Article in Trends in hearing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Various aspects of hearing loss in newborns: A narrative review.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2023
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  4. Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kinjal Mehta1 Ear Institute, 4919 University College London , UK.
Peter Watkin2 Department of Audiology, 156708 Whipps Cross University Hospital , London, UK.
Margaret Baldwin2 Department of Audiology, 156708 Whipps Cross University Hospital , London, UK.
Josephine Marriage3 Chears Ltd, Royston, UK.
Merle Mahon4 Psychology and Language Sciences, 4919 University College London , UK.
Deborah Vickers4 Psychology and Language Sciences, 4919 University College London , UK.
Whipps Cross University Hospital · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recording of free-field cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) responses to speech tokens was introduced into the audiology management for infants with a permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI) during 2011-2015 at a U.K. service. Children with bilateral PCHI were studied from two sequential cohorts. Thirty-four children had followed an audiology pathway prior to CAEP introduction, and 44 children followed a pathway after the introduction of CAEP and were tested with unaided and aided CAEP responses. Data analysis explored the age of diagnosis, hearing aid fitting, and referral for cochlear implant (CI) assessment for each of these groups. CAEP offered a novel educative process for the parents and audiologists supporting decision-making for hearing aid fitting and CI referral. Delays in hearing aid fitting and CI referral were categorized as being due to the audiologist's recommendation or parental choice. Results showed that the median age of hearing aid fitting prior to CAEP introduction was 9.2 months. After the inclusion of CAEP recording in the infant pathways, it was 3.9 months. This reduction was attributable to earlier fitting of hearing aids for children with mild and moderate hearing losses, for which the median age fell from 19 to 5 months. Children with profound hearing loss were referred for CI assessment at a significantly earlier age following the introduction of CAEP. Although there has also been a national trend for earlier hearing aid fitting in children, the current study demonstrates that the inclusion of CAEP recording in the pathway facilitated earlier hearing aid fitting for milder impairments.

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Hearing AidsProsthesis FittingAge FactorsAuditory CortexCochlear ImplantsDeafnessEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleHearing LossHumansInfantLanguageLondonMalePersons with Hearing DisabilitiesReferral and Consultationchildrencochlear implantcortical auditory evoked potentialshearing aidUniversal Neonatal Hearing Screen

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PMID29205100
PMCPMC5721955
OpenAlexW2772855736

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