ReviewGMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery2017
Hearing aids: indications, technology, adaptation, and quality control.
Review in GMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Audiometric Parameters for Assistive Hearing Technology for Adults and Children With Tympanic Membrane Perforation.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Transduction Efficiency and Immunogenicity of Viral Vectors for Cochlear Gene Therapy: A Systematic Review of Preclinical Animal Studies.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Public Hearing Aid Policies in Brazil: Operational Gaps, Replacement Costs, and Data Governance in the Unified Health System (SUS).International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2026Review
- Development and preliminary evaluation of a German questionnaire assessing attitudes toward hearing aids and behavioral intention.BMC health services research · 2026Article
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- Comparison of hearing performance in patients with borderline indication for active middle ear or cochlear implants: clinical outcomes to guide preoperative counseling and decision making.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 · 2024Article
- Update on surgical and nonsurgical treatment options for age-related hearing loss.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2023Review
- A flexible data-driven audiological patient stratification method for deriving auditory profiles.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Auditory Perceptual Exercises in Adults Adapting to the Use of Hearing Aids.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Neural Plasticity Induced by Hearing Aid Use.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Factors Associated With Hearing Aid Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries.Innovation in aging · 2021Article
- Making the Case for Research on Disease-Modifying Treatments to Tackle Post-lingual Progressive Sensorineural Hearing Loss.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Hearing loss can be caused by a number of different pathological conditions. Some of them can be successfully treated, mainly by surgery, depending on the individual's disease process. However, the treatment of chronic sensorineural hearing loss with damaged cochlear structures usually needs hearing rehabilitation by means of technical amplification. During the last two decades tremendous improvements in hearing aid technology led to a higher quality of the hearing rehabilitation process. For example, due to sophisticated signal processing acoustic feedback could be reduced and hence open fitting options are available even for more subjects with higher degrees of hearing loss. In particular for high-frequency hearing loss, the use of open fitting is an option. Both the users' acceptance and the perceived sound quality were significantly increased by open fittings. However, we are still faced with a low level of readiness in many hearing impaired subjects to accept acoustic amplification. Since ENT specialists play a key-role in hearing aid provision, they should promote early hearing aid rehabilitation and include this in the counselling even in subjects with mild and moderate hearing loss. Recent investigations demonstrated the benefit of early hearing aid use in this group of patients since this may help to reduce subsequent damages as auditory deprivation, social isolation, development of dementia, and cognitive decline. For subjects with tinnitus, hearing aids may also support masking by environmental sounds and enhance cortical inhibition. The present paper describes the latest developments of hearing aid technology and the current state of the art for amplification modalities. Implications for both hearing aid indication and provision are discussed.
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