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. 2018;23(2):105-115.
doi: 10.1159/000490878. Epub 2018 Sep 7.

Minimal Reporting Standards for Active Middle Ear Hearing Implants

Hannes Maier  1 , Uwe Baumann  2 , Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner  3 , Dirk Beutner  4 , Marco D Caversaccio  5 , Thomas Keintzel  6 , Martin Kompis  5 , Thomas Lenarz  1 , Astrid Magele  7 , Torsten Mewes  8 , Alexander Müller  9 , Tobias Rader  10 , Torsten Rahne  11 , Sebastian P Schraven  12 , Burkard Schwab  13 , Georg Mathias Sprinzl  7 , Bernd Strauchmann  14 , Ingo Todt  15 , Thomas Wesarg  16 , Barbara Wollenberg  17 , Stefan K Plontke  11
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Minimal Reporting Standards for Active Middle Ear Hearing Implants

Hannes Maier et al. Audiol Neurootol. 2018.

Abstract

There is currently no standardized method for reporting audiological, surgical and subjective outcome measures in clinical trials with active middle ear implants (AMEIs). It is often difficult to compare studies due to data incompatibility and to perform meta-analyses across different centres is almost impossible. A committee of ENT and audiological experts from Germany, Austria and Switzerland decided to address this issue by developing new minimal standards for reporting the outcomes of AMEI clinical trials. The consensus presented here aims to provide a recommendation to enable better inter-study comparability.

Keywords: Hearing results; Active middle ear implant; Audiogram; Hearing loss; Hearing outcome; Meta-analysis; Reporting standards; Review.

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