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16938781

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
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.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1499-2027
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S99-107
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Self-reported benefits from successive bilateral cochlear implantation in post-lingually deafened adults: randomised controlled trial.
pubmed:affiliation
MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK. aqs1@york.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't