The role of a mobile hearing application in secondary care ENT (HAppENT)

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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:138

Enthalten in:

The Journal of laryngology and otology - 138(2024), 3 vom: 26. Feb., Seite 289-296

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thompson, G [VerfasserIn]
Abdelhamid, A [VerfasserIn]
Khudan, A [VerfasserIn]
Dobbs, S [VerfasserIn]
Suleman, M T [VerfasserIn]
Salem, O M [VerfasserIn]
Khwaja, S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Audiology
Hearing loss
Hearing test
Journal Article
Pure tone audiometry
Sensorineural hearing loss
Sudden hearing loss

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 19.02.2024

Date Revised 19.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S002221512300138X

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367144921