Stephen A Fausti

..Technological advances will improve monitoring, allow better noise engineering controls, and lead to more effective hearing protection...

..Therefore, for individuals with poorer hearing, expanding the use of the 1/6th-octave test protocol provides earlier identification of ototoxicity...

..is the prevalence and incidence of tinnitus among patients treated with cisplatin, carboplatin, or ototoxic antibiotic therapies? (2) Do commonly reported treatment or subject factors confound or modify the incidence of tinnitus onset?..

..Test results revealed significant differences between the unaided and aided conditions at several signal-to-noise ratios...

..A tool to help forecast susceptibility to ototoxic-induced changes in the SRO in advance of each chemotherapy treatment visit may prove useful for ototoxicity monitoring efforts, patient counseling, and therapeutic planning...

..An evaluation of the test performance achieved using various criteria and methods for ototoxicity monitoring may help resolve these issues...

..This approach appears to provide an accurate and rapid ototoxicity risk assessment (ORA) that once validated can be used clinically...

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..Results revealed a significant difference in speech perception between the two groups at nine signal-to-noise ratios. Some clinical implications of these results are discussed...

..However, interpreting DPOAE findings in the context of ototoxicity monitoring requires that their accuracy be determined in relation to a clinically accepted gold standard test...

..Results indicate that ER-4B insert earphones are as reliable as KOSS earphones for testing on the ward for high-frequency ototoxicity monitoring...

..The current study compared responses among these stimuli. The results demonstrate the reliability of HF-click responses and of tone bursts presented in trains...

..Inferences regarding effects of aging on ABR measures at each rate were derived from the fitted model. Results were compared to data from subjects with poorer hearing...

..It is the objective of this article to clarify the major differences that exist between these two forms of treatment...

..Included is a Mathcad implementation and analysis of our MFTB synthesis technique and sample performance measurements of the MFTB stimulus configuration used in a clinical research ABR system...

..Second, the normal-hearing group showed overall better response reliability, both within and between sessions, than the cochlear-loss group. These differences were small but consistent...

..Results of this study suggest that specifying the range of tinnitus pitch matches rather than attempting to identify a single pitch match may be more appropriate...

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..A third variable, the discrepancy between these two SRTNs, is also computed. It measures the accuracy with which subjects assess their own hearing ability and is referred to as the Performance-Perceptual Discrepancy (PPDIS)...

..These findings have significant clinical implications for practitioners working with patients with MS...

..Standardized administration of these interview forms will facilitate greater uniformity in the initial evaluation and outcomes analyses of patients treated with TRT...

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..Maximum inhibition occurred about an hour after glucose consumption when blood glucose levels peaked. Results indicate that acute hyperglycemia influences efferent control of the cochlea in people with type 2 diabetes...

..This rapid identification protocol results in considerable time savings in ototoxicity monitoring, which will result in the capability to include more patients in a monitoring program...

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..Included in this guide is the expanded version of the TRT initial interview and specific instructions for the clinician administering the interview...

..The results show that the reliability of responses to the HF clicks were comparable to the tonebursts and further, both HF clicks produced responses slightly larger than tonebursts...

..We describe the rationale and design of the first randomized clinical trial to study the long-term effects of routine screening for hearing loss. We also describe the baseline characteristics of the randomized cohort...

..The two compression hearing aids appear to provide superior benefits compared to the linear circuit, although the differences between the hearing aids were smaller than the differences between unaided and aided conditions...

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