The following are Hearing Review Editor Karl Strom’s Top-10 article picks for 2014, as judged by reader interest and website traffic, as well as a dozen more “must reads” in case you missed them in 2014.
- Music Benefits Across Lifespan: Enhanced Processing of Speech in Noise (August 2014 HR), by Nina Kraus, PhD, and Samira Anderson, AuD, PhD
- Interventional Audiology, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, (November 2013, and July & December 2014 HR), by Brian Taylor, AuD, Bob Tysoe, and J.N. Bakke, MD
- An Independent Practice’s Guide to Battling Big Box Retail and Commoditization in Hearing Healthcare (July 2014 HR), by Gyl A. Kasewurm, AuD
- Right Product; Wrong Message (April 2014 HR), by Douglas L. Beck, AuD, and Curtis J. Alcock
- What Is Your Customer Loyalty Quotient (CLQ)? (September 2014 HR), by Sergei Kochkin, PhD
- It May Be Mild, Slight, or Minimal, But It’s Not Insignificant (April 2014 HR), by Barbra Timmer, MACAud, MAudSA, MBA
- A Comparison of Consumer Satisfaction, Subjective Benefit, and Quality of Life Changes Associated with Traditional and Direct-mail Hearing Aid Use (January 2014 HR), by Sergei Kochkin, PhD
- Issues in Tinnitus: 2014-2015 (October 2014 HR), by Douglas L. Beck, AuD, Christine DePlacido, PhD, and Colin Paxton, MA
- Consumer Perceptions of the Impact of Inductively Looped Venues on the Utility of Their Hearing Devices (October 2014 HR), by Sergei Kochkin, PhD; Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD; Cynthia Compton-Conley, PhD; Douglas L. Beck, AuD; Brian Taylor, AuD; Patricia Kricos, PhD; Mary Caccavo, PhD; Alice Holmes, PhD, and Thomas A. Powers, PhD
- The “Best Hearing Aid” for Listening to Music: Clinical Tricks, Major Technologies, and Software Tips (August 2014 HR), by Marshall Chasin, AuD
And a dozen more you shouldn’t miss…
- Improving Hearing and Hearing Aid Retention for Infants and Young Children: A Practical Survey and Study of Hearing Aid Retention Products (February 2014 HR), by Karen L. Anderson, PhD and Jane R. Madell, PhD
- The Extended-Wear Hearing Device: Observations on Patient Experiences and Its Integration into a Practice (March 2014 HR), by Mark J. Sanford, MS, Tamara Anderson, and Christine Sanford
- Fitness and Better Hearing, Part 1 and Part 2 (March 2014 HR), by Helaine M. Alessio, PhD, and Kathleen Hutchinson Marron, PhD
- Using Professional Audio Techniques for Music Practice with Hearing Loss: A Thought Experiment (August 2014 HR), by Richard Einhorn
- How Data from a Practice Benchmark Study Can Help Hearing Practices Compete—and Win (July 2014 HR), by Ronald Gleitman, PhD
- On the Benefits of Binaural (July 2014 HR), by Tammara Stender, AuD
- A Hearing Aid Solution for Music (January 2014 HR), by Marshall Chasin, AuD
- Clinical Trial on the Effectiveness of Widex Zen Therapy for Tinnitus (November 2014 HR), by Melanie Herzfeld, AuD, Enza Ciurlia-Guy, MClSc, AUD(C), and Robert Sweetow, PhD
- Warranties and the Pragmatic Practice (February 2014 HR), by Charlie Stone, AuD
- Clinical Results with a New Wireless Binaural Directional Hearing System (November 2014 HR), by Thomas A. Powers, PhD, and Matthias Froehlich, PhD
- A Disappearing Receiver Tube and Wire Cover Treatment (April 2014 HR), by Robert Traynor, EdD, MBA
- 2013 Survey of US Dispensing Practice Metrics, Part 2 (January 2014 HR), by Phonak Practice Development
- HR 2013 Hearing Aid Dispenser Survey: Dispensing in the Age of Internet and Big Box Retailers (April 2014 HR), by Karl Strom
Next week: Top Picks for News and Columns
