Hearing aid effectiveness after aural rehabilitation: Individual versus group trial results
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Hearing aid effectiveness after aural rehabilitation: individual versus group trial results.
We designed this noninferiority randomized trial to determine (1) if group hearing aid fitting visits and group hearing aid follow-up visits were at least as effective as individual visits in terms of hearing-related function (measured with the Inner Effectiveness of Auditory Rehabilitation [EAR] scale) and adherence, and (2) if group visits were less costly over the 6 mo post-fitting period. F...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0748-7711
DOI: 10.1682/jrrd.2012.03.0049