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Self-reported benefits from successive bilateral cochlear implantation in post-lingually deafened adults: randomised controlled trial. Beneficios auto-reportados en la implantación coclear bilateral consecutiva en adultos ensordecidos postlingüísticos: prueba aleatoria controlada

Self-reported benefits from successive bilateral cochlear implantation in post-lingually deafened adults: randomised controlled trial. Beneficios auto-reportados en la implantación coclear bilateral consecutiva en adultos ensordecidos postlingüísticos: prueba aleatoria controlada
Self-reported benefits from successive bilateral cochlear implantation in post-lingually deafened adults: randomised controlled trial. Beneficios auto-reportados en la implantación coclear bilateral consecutiva en adultos ensordecidos postlingüísticos: prueba aleatoria controlada
Adult users of unilateral Nucleus CI24 cochlear implants with the SPEAK processing strategy were randomised either to receive a second identical implant in the contralateral ear immediately, or to wait 12 months while they acted as controls for late-emerging benefits of the first implant. Twenty four subjects, twelve from each group, completed the study. Receipt of a second implant led to improvements in self-reported abilities in spatial hearing, quality of hearing, and hearing for speech, but to generally non-significant changes in measures of quality of life. Multivariate analyses showed that positive changes in quality of life were associated with improvements in hearing, but were offset by negative changes associated with worsening tinnitus. Even in a best-case scenario, in which no worsening of tinnitus was assumed to occur, the gain in quality of life was too small to achieve an acceptable cost-effectiveness ratio. The most promising strategies for improving the cost-effectiveness of bilateral implantation are to increase effectiveness through enhanced signal processing in binaural processors, and to reduce the cost of implant hardware.
bilateral implantation, cochlear implantation, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness
99-107
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Court, I.
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Verschure, C.
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Ashcroft, P.
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Summerfield, A. Quentin, Barton, G.R., Toner, J., McAnallen, C., Proops, D., Harries, C., Cooper, H., Court, I., Gray, R., Osborne, J., Doran, M., Ramsden, R., Mawman, D., O'Driscoll, M., Graham, J., Aleksy, W., Meerton, L., Verschure, C., Ashcroft, P. and Pringle, M. (2006) Self-reported benefits from successive bilateral cochlear implantation in post-lingually deafened adults: randomised controlled trial. Beneficios auto-reportados en la implantación coclear bilateral consecutiva en adultos ensordecidos postlingüísticos: prueba aleatoria controlada. International Journal of Audiology, 45 (Supplement 1), 99-107. (doi:10.1080/14992020600783079).

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Abstract

Adult users of unilateral Nucleus CI24 cochlear implants with the SPEAK processing strategy were randomised either to receive a second identical implant in the contralateral ear immediately, or to wait 12 months while they acted as controls for late-emerging benefits of the first implant. Twenty four subjects, twelve from each group, completed the study. Receipt of a second implant led to improvements in self-reported abilities in spatial hearing, quality of hearing, and hearing for speech, but to generally non-significant changes in measures of quality of life. Multivariate analyses showed that positive changes in quality of life were associated with improvements in hearing, but were offset by negative changes associated with worsening tinnitus. Even in a best-case scenario, in which no worsening of tinnitus was assumed to occur, the gain in quality of life was too small to achieve an acceptable cost-effectiveness ratio. The most promising strategies for improving the cost-effectiveness of bilateral implantation are to increase effectiveness through enhanced signal processing in binaural processors, and to reduce the cost of implant hardware.

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Published date: 2006
Keywords: bilateral implantation, cochlear implantation, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness
Organisations: Human Sciences Group

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Local EPrints ID: 43380
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/43380
PURE UUID: 4522b09d-a1c5-4ed6-bb40-69b5459b0a87

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Date deposited: 24 Jan 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 08:54

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Author: A. Quentin Summerfield
Author: G.R. Barton
Author: J. Toner
Author: C. McAnallen
Author: D. Proops
Author: C. Harries
Author: H. Cooper
Author: I. Court
Author: R. Gray
Author: J. Osborne
Author: M. Doran
Author: R. Ramsden
Author: D. Mawman
Author: M. O'Driscoll
Author: J. Graham
Author: W. Aleksy
Author: L. Meerton
Author: C. Verschure
Author: P. Ashcroft
Author: M. Pringle

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