Ethics, Accountability, and Patient-Driven Hearing Care Practices
Are professional ethics in the “eyes of the beholder”? Yes, the consumers’ eye. A perspective on ethics in private practice and how philosophy must dictate practice.
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Performance of an Automatic Adaptive Dual-Microphone ITC Digital Hearing Aid
A clinical study of an automatic adaptive directional microphone system finds exceptional benefits are available relative to hearing in noise.
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Cochlear Function in Older Infants
A study by the House Ear Institute indicates that DPOAE suppression tuning is still not adult-like by 3 months of age. Term neonates and 3-month-olds have comparable DPOAE suppression results and adults are dissimilar from these two groups. This suggests continued maturation of cochlear function in humans during the post-natal months.
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MarkeTrak VI: On the Issue of Value: Hearing Aid Benefit, Price, Satisfaction, and Repurchase Rates
For decades, the correlation between price, benefit, and satisfaction with hearing aids has been sketchy at best—until now. This study shows that benefit clearly overwhelms price as the key determinant of customer satisfaction, and technology does make a difference. Also, a best practices protocol for the selection, fitting, and verification of hearing aids is proposed.
Read MoreClassification of Audiovestibular Symptoms Related to Migraine, Part 1: Overview of Migraine
Hearing care professionals should have at least a basic understanding of migraine and its audiovestibular symptoms: vertigo, tinnitus, phonophobia, and even hearing loss present as symptoms in at least 30% of migraine patients. This article, the first of a three-part series, provides an overview
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From Boys Town to Your Town: 25 Years of Pediatric Hearing Science
Boys Town National Research Hospital recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of being a leading research center in pediatric hearing care science. HR looks at current research being conducted at the facility, which includes work on OAEs and ABRs, pediatric amplification, psychoacoustics and neurobiology, and genetic research into syndromic and non-syndromic hearing loss.
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Teamwork for Clinical Excellence: The Mayo Clinic
HR visits the Mayo Clinic and interviews the audiologists and physicians who make up one of the country’s best hearing care facilities and are leaders in clinically applied research.
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Multilingualism and Children with Cochlear Implants
Research from the House Ear Institute suggests that oral bilingual youngsters who receive cochlear implants perform similarly on speech perception tasks and make equivalent gains in language compared to their monolingual peers
Read MoreHearing Loss and Depression in Adults
Depression in clients is not only an impediment to successful fittings but a potentially life-threatening mental disorder. Here is how to spot depression and what to do about it.
Read MoreOverview of BPPV: Pathophysiology & Diagnosis
Even though Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is the number-one form of vertigo, it takes an average of 4.5 physician visits before it is diagnosed. Learn what BPPV is and how it can be recognized using “low-tech” procedures.
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AAS Scientific Meeting Shares Research from All Disciplines
A report on the 2000 American Auditory Soc. meeting in Scottsdale, AZ.
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