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Self-Reported Hearing Loss in Older Adults Is Associated With Higher Emergency Department Visits and Medical Costs.
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- The Impact of Hearing Loss on Hospitalizations Among US Adults with Heart Failure.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Health service use, health outcomes and treatment costs of adults with a cochlear implant: a retrospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Association of Self-Recognition of Hearing Loss With Hospitalizations in Older Adults in the United States.Medical care · 2025Article
- Characteristics of emergency department visits among older adults with hearing difficultly during the COVID19 pandemic in the US.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Hospitalizations, Emergency Department Visits, and Home Health Use Among Older Adults With Sensory Loss.Journal of aging and health · 2024Article
- Associations Between Age-Related Hearing Loss, Cognitive Impairment, and Multiple Chronic Conditions in a Group Care Setting.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Potentially Preventable Hospitalization Among Adults with Hearing, Vision, and Dual Sensory Loss: A Case and Control Study.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2023Article
- Associations between hearing loss and clinical outcomes: population-based cohort study.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Impacts of the hearing aid intervention on healthcare utilization and costs among middle-aged and older adults: results from a randomized controlled trial in rural China.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
- Emergency department utilization among deaf and hard-of-hearing patients: A retrospective chart review.Disability and health journal · 2022Article
- Identifying patterns of clinical conditions among high-cost older adult health care users using claims data: a latent class approach.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Hearing loss is common among older adults. Thus, it was of interest to explore differences in health care utilization and costs associated with hearing loss and hearing aid use. Hearing loss and hearing aid use were assessed through self-reports and included 5 categories: no hearing loss, aided mild, unaided mild, aided severe, and unaided severe hearing loss. Health care utilization and costs were obtained from medical claims. Those with aided mild or severe hearing loss were significantly more likely to have an emergency department visit. Conversely, those with aided severe hearing loss were about 15% less likely to be hospitalized. Individuals with unaided severe hearing loss had the highest annual medical costs ($14349) compared with those with no hearing loss ($12118,
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