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Effectiveness and efficiency of a dedicated bimodal fitting formula.
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Audiology research [Audiol Res] 2019 May 09; Vol. 9 (1), pp. 219. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 May 09 (Print Publication: 2019). - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- 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.<br />Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: Josef Chalupper declares grants from Advanced Bionics. The other authors did not receive any grants from Advanced Bionics.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2039-4330
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Audiology research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31183024
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2019.219