Category: Patient Care

Patient Care

Why It’s a Good Idea to Stick Around Bass Players

Staying close to the bass player—or otherwise enhancing bass audibility—helps musicians and listeners, especially those with hearing loss, maintain pitch and better appreciate music.

Patient Care

How to Address Cost Concerns with Effective Empathy

Owners of veterinary medicine, dentistry, and optometry practices share proactive strategies for discussing cost and financing options with patients using empathy to help them move forward with care.

Pediatric Care

Study: Wealth Gap Affects Spoken Language Success in Young CI Recipients

A recent study of outcomes in infants and young deaf children with cochlear implants suggests that socioeconomic status plays a major role in whether spoken language becomes their primary communication mode.

Counseling & Education

Study: Fear of Judgment Stops Adults From Disclosing Hearing Loss

The study found that while clinicians focused on the stigma of hearing aids, patients were more concerned about the stigma of hearing loss itself.

Evaluation

What’s In a Hearing Number? An Interview with Frank Lin, MD, PhD

Frank Lin, MD, PhD, discusses the Know Your Hearing Number campaign and why this concept can help break down barriers to hearing care.

Patient Fittings

Oticon and Henry Ford Health Collaborate to Enhance Hearing Aid Fittings

Oticon and Henry Ford Health's Division of Audiology launched a clinical research partnership to improve hearing aid fittings.

Pediatric Care

Reconsidering Pediatric Hearing Assessment: An Interview with Angela Bonino, PhD

Angela Bonino, PhD, discusses her research on the lack of access to adequate hearing assessments for children with developmental disabilities.