TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sprinzl, Georg Mathias
A1  - Magele, Astrid
A1  - Schoerg, Philipp
A1  - Hagen, Rudolf
A1  - Rak, Kristen
A1  - Kurz, Anja
A1  - Van de Heyning, Paul
A1  - Calvino, Miryam
A1  - Lassaletta, Luis
A1  - Gavilán, Javier
T1  - A novel representation of audiological and subjective findings for acoustical, bone conduction and direct drive hearing solutions
JF  - Journal of Personalized Medicine
N2  - Background: The benefit of hearing rehabilitation is often measured using audiological tests or subjective questionnaires/interviews. It is important to consider both aspects in order to evaluate the overall benefits. Currently, there is no standardized method for reporting combined audiological and patient reported subjective outcome measures in clinical practice. Therefore, this study focuses on showing the patient’s audiological, as well as subjective outcomes in one graph using data from an existing study. Method: The present paper illustrated a graph presenting data on four quadrants with audiological and subjective findings. These quadrants represented speech comprehension in quiet (unaided vs. aided) as WRS% at 65 dB SPL, speech recognition in noise (unaided vs. aided) as SRT dB SNR, sound field threshold (unaided vs. aided) as PTA\(_4\) in dB HL, wearing time and patient satisfaction questionnaire results. Results: As an example, the HEARRING graph in this paper represented audiological and subjective datasets on a single patient level or a cohort of patients for an active bone conduction hearing implant solution. The graph offered the option to follow the user’s performance in time. Conclusion: The HEARRING graph allowed representation of a combination of audiological measures with patient reported outcomes in one single graph, indicating the overall benefit of the intervention. In addition, the correlation and consistency between some results (e.g., aided threshold and aided WRS) can be better visualized. Those users who lacked performance benefits on one or more parameters and called for further insight could be visually identified.
KW  - bone conduction implant
KW  - hearing aids
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-311210
SN  - 2075-4426
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
ER  -