The role of a mobile hearing application in secondary care ENT (HAppENT).
J Laryngol Otol
; 138(3): 289-296, 2024 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38223940
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Sudden hearing loss is a common presentation to ENT. In the authors' practice, patients often wait many weeks for formal hearing testing. This study aimed to assess whether a tablet-based hearing test, hearTest, could aid clinical decision-making within secondary care ENT.METHOD:
This was a multi-centre, prospective, non-randomised study to assess the feasibility, usability and accuracy of hearTest.RESULTS:
In the sample, hearTest was shown to be an acceptable method of testing for hearing loss by both patients and clinicians. The 0.5-4 kHz range had an average clinical agreement rate of 95.1 per cent when compared with formal pure tone audiometry, deeming it an accurate test to diagnose hearing loss.CONCLUSION:
The authors propose that hearTest can be used within ENT as a clinical decision support tool when manual audiometry is not immediately available. Within the authors' practice, hearTest is used to aid diagnosis and management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Deafness
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Hearing Loss, Sudden
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Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Laryngol Otol
Journal subject:
OTORRINOLARINGOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom