Javier Gavilan1, Oliver Adunka2, Sumit Agrawal3, Marcus Atlas4, Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner5, Stefan Brill6, Iain Bruce7, Craig Buchman8, Marco Caversaccio9, Marc T De Bodt10, Meg Dillon8, Benoit Godey11, Kevin Green7, Wolfgang Gstoettner5, Rudolf Hagen6, Abdulrahman Hagr12, Demin Han13, Mohan Kameswaran11, Eva Karltorp14, Martin Kompis9, Vlad Kuzovkov15, Luis Lassaletta1, Yongxin Li13, Artur Lorens16, Jane Martin17, Manikoth Manoj18, Griet Mertens10, Robert Mlynski19, Joachim Mueller20, Martin O'Driscoll7, Lorne Parnes3, Sasidharan Pulibalathingal18, Andreas Radeloff6, Christopher H Raine17, Gunesh Rajan4, Ranjith Rajeswaran21, Joachim Schmutzhard22, Henryk Skarzynski16, Piotr Skarzynski16, Georg Sprinzl23, Hinrich Staecker24, Kurt Stephan22, Serafima Sugarova15, Dayse Tavora4, Shin-Ichi Usami25, Yuri Yanov15, Mario Zernotti26, Patrick Zorowka22, Paul Van de Heyning10. 1. a 1 Hospital La Paz , Madrid, Spain. 2. b 2 The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery , Columbus, OH, USA. 3. c 3 London Health Sciences Centre , London-Ontario, Canada. 4. d 4 Ear Science Institute Australia, University of Western Australia , Subiaco, Australia. 5. e 5 Ear, Nose and Throat Department, University Clinic Vienna , Austria. 6. f 6 Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic and Polyclinic, Würzburg University , Würzburg, Germany. 7. g 7 Manchester Auditory Implant, Central Manchester University Hospitals , Manchester, UK. 8. h 8 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine , Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 9. i 9 Bern University Hospital, University Clinic for Ear, Nose, Throat, Head and Neck Surgery , Bern, Switzerland. 10. j 10 Antwerp University Hospital , Antwerp, Belgium. 11. k 11 University Hospital of Rennes , Rennes, France. 12. l 12 King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University KSU , Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 13. m 13 Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University , Beijing, PR China. 14. o 15 Karolinska University Hospital , Stockholm, Sweden. 15. p 16 St. Petersburg ENT and Speech Research Institute , St. Petersburg, Russia. 16. q 17 Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing , Kajetany, Poland. 17. r 18 Bradford Royal Infirmary , Bradford, UK. 18. s 19 ENT Super Specialty Institute and Research Center , Kozhikode, India. 19. t 20 Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic and Polyclinic, Rostock Medical University , Rostock, Germany. 20. u 21 Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic and Polyclinic, Ludwig-Maximilians-University , Munich, Germany. 21. n 14 Madras ENT Research Foundation , Chennai, India. 22. v 22 Innsbruck University Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic , Innsbruck, Austria. 23. w 23 Ear, Nose and Throat Department, University Clinic St. Poelten , St. Poelten, Austria. 24. x 24 Kansas University Center for Balance and Hearing Disorders , Kansas City, USA. 25. y 25 Shinshu University School of Medicine , Matsumoto, Japan. 26. z 26 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Sanatorium Allende , Cordoba, Argentina.
Abstract
CONCLUSION: Bone conduction implants are useful in patients with conductive and mixed hearing loss for whom conventional surgery or hearing aids are no longer an option. They may also be used in patients affected by single-sided deafness. OBJECTIVES: To establish a consensus on the quality standards required for centers willing to create a bone conduction implant program. METHOD: To ensure a consistently high level of service and to provide patients with the best possible solution the members of the HEARRING network have established a set of quality standards for bone conduction implants. These standards constitute a realistic minimum attainable by all implant clinics and should be employed alongside current best practice guidelines. RESULTS: Fifteen items are thoroughly analyzed. They include team structure, accommodation and clinical facilities, selection criteria, evaluation process, complete preoperative and surgical information, postoperative fitting and assessment, follow-up, device failure, clinical management, transfer of care and patient complaints.
CONCLUSION: Bone conduction implants are useful in patients with conductive and mixed hearing loss for whom conventional surgery or hearing aids are no longer an option. They may also be used in patients affected by single-sided deafness. OBJECTIVES: To establish a consensus on the quality standards required for centers willing to create a bone conduction implant program. METHOD: To ensure a consistently high level of service and to provide patients with the best possible solution the members of the HEARRING network have established a set of quality standards for bone conduction implants. These standards constitute a realistic minimum attainable by all implant clinics and should be employed alongside current best practice guidelines. RESULTS: Fifteen items are thoroughly analyzed. They include team structure, accommodation and clinical facilities, selection criteria, evaluation process, complete preoperative and surgical information, postoperative fitting and assessment, follow-up, device failure, clinical management, transfer of care and patient complaints.
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Bone conduction implants; clinical consensus; multicenter study; quality standards
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