Effectiveness and efficiency of a dedicated bimodal fitting formula.
Bimodal fitting formula
Clinical efficiency
Cochlear implant
Journal
Audiology research
ISSN: 2039-4330
Titre abrégé: Audiol Res
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101644681
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 May 2019
06 May 2019
Historique:
received:
21
01
2019
accepted:
12
03
2019
entrez:
12
6
2019
pubmed:
12
6
2019
medline:
12
6
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The population of unilateral cochlear implant (CI) users with aidable residual hearing in the contralateral ear is continuously growing. Aiding the contralateral ear with a hearing aid has been shown to provide substantial benefit regarding speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise, sound quality, localization ability and listening effort. In this study, a dedicated hearing aid with the accompanying fitting prescription, tailored to the needs of bimodal listeners was evaluated in nine bimodal CI users. Speech intelligibility scores in noise revealed on-par performance of the dedicated bimodal fitting compared to the clinical standard prescription. 78% of the bimodal CI users preferred the dedicated bimodal fitting over the clinical standard. The minimal subject-specific finetuning effort required during the dedicated bimodal fitting process emphasizes the clinical efficiency.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31183024
doi: 10.4081/audiores.2019.219
pmc: PMC6536834
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
219Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interest: Josef Chalupper declares grants from Advanced Bionics. The other authors did not receive any grants from Advanced Bionics.
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