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low importance for patients

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the highest importance for patients

Benefits

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  • 🔑🔑🔑 No surgery

  • 🔑🔑 No Stigma

No Treatment

This section outlines the benefits and drawbacks of leaving hearing loss untreated, categorized into three key domains: audiological aspect, medical aspect, and patient-reported aspects. This section outlines the benefits and drawbacks of leaving hearing loss untreated, categorized into three key domains: audiological aspects, medical aspects, and patient-reported aspects.

 

Each publication listed below is rated by its importance for patients, using a Hearring key icon scale 🔑— one key for low importance, three keys for medium importance, and five keys for high importance.

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Drawbacks

  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑 Difficulties hearing in noise, difficulties in localisation, development of contralateral hearing loss

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  • 🔑🔑🔑🔑 Personal consequences:

    social isolation,

    headaches,

    fatigue, tinnitus,

    social stigma,

    fear of loosing good ear

    🔑🔑🔑🔑 Societal consequences:

    delayed development,

    poorer academic performance,

    lower fBb performance

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