Interventions to improve hearing aid use in adult auditory rehabilitation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Barker, Fiona ^a   Mackenzie, Emma ^b   Elliott, Lynette ^c   Jones, Simon ^a   de Lusignan, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c The Princess Margaret Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY REHABILITATION; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SELF CARE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VETERAN; ADULT; AGED; HEARING LOSS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELF CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84982239160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010342.pub3     Document Type: Review

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