Satisfaction and speech perception were frequent secondary outcomes .
There was diversity in measures used to report patient outcomes .
Outcome categories other than patient health status and behavior were rarely reported .
This review has highlighted considerable diversity in patient-reported outcome measurements in r and omized control trials in the context of adult auditory rehabilitation .
OBJECTIVES This review documented the range and nature of reported outcome measures in the context of adult auditory rehabilitative research .
Hearing aid effectiveness after aural rehabilitation: individual versus group trial results.
We design ed this noninferiority r and omized trial to determine ( 1 ) if group hearing aid fitting visits and group hearing aid follow-up visits were at least as effective as individual visits in terms of hearing-related function ( measured with the Inner Effectiveness of Auditory Rehabilitation [ EAR ] scale ) and adherence , and ( 2 ) if group visits were less costly over the 6 mo post-fitting period . For 644 participants r and omized to receive their hearing aid visits in an individual or group format at the Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System , 6 mo outcomes showed no significant differences in Inner EAR scores between individual and group fitting ( p = 0.53 ) or follow-up ( p = 0.11 ) , or in the number of hours per day hearing aids were worn between individual and group fitting ( p = 0.90 ) or follow-up ( p = 0.24 ) . We found significantly higher cost for individual compared with group fitting ( p < 0.001 ) and follow-up ( p < 0.001 ) . We conclude that outcomes for group hearing aid fitting and hearing aid follow-up visits were not inferior to individual hearing aid fitting and follow-up visits , with group fitting and follow-up visits yielding cost savings
Satisfaction and speech perception were frequent secondary outcomes .
There was diversity in measures used to report patient outcomes .
Outcome categories other than patient health status and behavior were rarely reported .
This review has highlighted considerable diversity in patient-reported outcome measurements in r and omized control trials in the context of adult auditory rehabilitation .
OBJECTIVES This review documented the range and nature of reported outcome measures in the context of adult auditory rehabilitative research .