Journal article
Factors affecting auditory performance of postlinguistically deaf adults using cochlear implants: An update with 2251 patients
P Blamey, F Artieres, D Başkent, F Bergeron, A Beynon, E Burke, N Dillier, R Dowell, B Fraysse, S Gallégo, PJ Govaerts, K Green, AM Huber, A Kleine-Punte, B Maat, M Marx, D Mawman, I Mosnier, AF O'Connor, S O'Leary Show all
Audiology and Neurotology | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.1159/000343189
Abstract
Objective: To update a 15-year-old study of 800 postlinguistically deaf adult patients showing how duration of severe to profound hearing loss, age at cochlear implantation (CI), age at onset of severe to profound hearing loss, etiology and CI experience affected CI outcome. Study Design: Retrospective multicenter study. Methods: Data from 2251 adult patients implanted since 2003 in 15 international centers were collected and speech scores in quiet were converted to percentile ranks to remove differences between centers. Results: The negative effect of long duration of severe to profound hearing loss was less important in the new data than in 1996; the effects of age at CI and age at onset o..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Salome Fontolliet is acknowledged for her contribution in collecting a great amount of data for the Quebec Cochlear Implant Program, Canada. The authors also want to thank Elise Billoir for her valuable advice in the statistical analyses. The Bionics Institute acknowledges the support it receives from the Victorian Government through its Operational Infrastructure Support Program. Dr. Lazard's funding was provided by the Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller (Prix des Jeunes Chercheurs 2010), without any conflict of interest.