Patient Satisfaction with the Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid

Badran, Khaled; Bunstone, Dan K.; Arya, Arvind; Suryanarayanan, Ranganathan; Mackinnon, Neil

doi:10.1097/01.mao.0000226300.13457.a6

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“…A high level of satisfaction is echoed in other studies [4,5,7,10]. We report an average of 8.7 and a standard deviation of 1.13 (Figure 3 An important outcome in the efficacy evaluation of the BAHA is the duration of daily use of the device.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…The first questionnaire assessed the ease of use, the daily utilization period of the prosthesis, and a satisfaction rating (1 = worst, 10 = best) evaluating the following: improvement in quality of life, overall level of satisfaction, improvement in sound localization, and satisfaction from the aesthetic point of view (Appendix 1). The questionnaire used was derived from the Nobel Biocare (Zurich, Switzerland) questionnaire because it had previously been validated by identical or similar versions [4]. The answer to the questionnaire and the frequency of postoperative complications were studied.…”

Section: Questionnairesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hearing rehabilitation in congenital aural atresia using the bone-anchored hearing aid: audiological and satisfaction results

Fuchsmann

Tringali

Disant

et al. 2010

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

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confidence: 99%

Hearing rehabilitation in congenital aural atresia using the bone-anchored hearing aid: audiological and satisfaction results

Fuchsmann

Tringali

Disant

et al. 2010

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

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“…The validity of the Baha for the treatment of conductive and mixed hearing loss has been amply documented in medical literature [3][4][5][8][9][10][11]. It was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for adults in 1996 and, 3 years later, for children aged 5 years and over.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Results and complications of the Baha system (bone-anchored hearing aid)

Ricci

Volpe

Faralli

et al. 2010

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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The aim of this work is to reexamine our experience with the treatment of conductive and mixed hearing loss using the Baha system. The system was implanted in 47 patients (16 adults and 31 children under the age of 14), bilaterally in two cases. The causes of hypoacusis were bilateral congenital aural atresia (31 patients), bilateral chronic otitis media or outcomes of middle-ear surgery (Gillett et al. in J laryngol Otol 120:537-542, 2006), and otosclerosis (Pazzaglia et al. in Acta Orthop Scand 54:574-579, 1983). The following parameters were assessed: mean preoperative air- and bone-conduction thresholds for the frequencies of 500, 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000 Hz; mean postoperative threshold with the Baha; hearing improvement calculated by subtracting the postoperative threshold with the Baha from the preoperative threshold for air conduction in the better ear; speech audiometry test; improvement in the quality of life, calculated using the Glasgow Benefit Inventory for the adult patients and the Glasgow Children's Benefit Inventory for paediatric patients; frequency and type of surgical complications. Follow-up ranged from 6 to 38 months. The audiological results were satisfactory, with air-bone gap closure in 85.1% of cases. In terms of quality of life, assessment using the Glasgow Benefit Inventory showed a clear-cut improvement in health for all the 45 patients that answered to the questionnaires in our study. Out of the 49 operations that were performed, complications were reported in 3 cases (6.1%): 2 cases of skin regrowth around the titanium screw and one in which the abutment was not osseointegrated. The data from this study show that the Baha system offers a high percentage of success, which can significantly improve the patient's quality of life, and a low rate of complications.

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“…The Entific Medical Systems questionnaire is an adaptation of the Nobel Biocare questionnaire that has been widely used to identify day-to-day user-and service-related issues with the BAHA device (7,9,10). These series had focused overwhelmingly on patients with ear-level BAHA.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%