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What is Hearing Aids?

A hearing aid is an electroacoustic body-worn apparatus which typically fits in or behind the wearer's ear, and is designed to amplify and modulate sounds for the wearer.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Hearing Loss 23 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_none
Tinnitus 5 1 Efficacy_slight
Other 4 0
Hearing problems 4 0
Improve communication 2 0
severe-profound hearing loss 1 0

See all 32 patients currently using Hearing Aids

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 0
None
 4

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Hearing Aids

Hospitalization 1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 3   Did not seem to work: 60%
Other 3   Other: 60%
Expense 2   Expense: 40%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped using Hearing Aids

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Hearing Aids

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Hearing Aids

Always
 4 80%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 1 20%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Hearing Aids

Very
 1 20%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 2 40%
Not at all
 2 40%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Hearing Aids

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 25%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 3 75%

Report created on May 28, 2012.