Quality standards for bone conduction implants.

Gavilan, Javier; Adunka, Oliver; Agrawal, Sumit; Atlas, Marcus; Baumgartner, Wolf-Dieter; Brill, Stefan; Bruce, Iain; Buchman, Craig; Caversaccio, Marco; De Bodt, Marc T; Dillon, Meg; Godey, Benoit; Green, Kevin; Gstoettner, Wolfgang; Hagen, Rudolf; Hagr, Abdulrahman; Han, Demin; Kameswaran, Mohan; Karltorp, Eva; Kompis, Martin; ... (2015). Quality standards for bone conduction implants. Acta oto-laryngologica, 135(12), pp. 1277-1285. Informa Healthcare 10.3109/00016489.2015.1067904

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CONCLUSION

Bone conduction implants are useful in patients with conductive and mixed hearing loss for whom conventional surgery or hearing aids are no longer an option. They may also be used in patients affected by single-sided deafness.

OBJECTIVES

To establish a consensus on the quality standards required for centers willing to create a bone conduction implant program.

METHOD

To ensure a consistently high level of service and to provide patients with the best possible solution the members of the HEARRING network have established a set of quality standards for bone conduction implants. These standards constitute a realistic minimum attainable by all implant clinics and should be employed alongside current best practice guidelines.

RESULTS

Fifteen items are thoroughly analyzed. They include team structure, accommodation and clinical facilities, selection criteria, evaluation process, complete preoperative and surgical information, postoperative fitting and assessment, follow-up, device failure, clinical management, transfer of care and patient complaints.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Further Contribution)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders (ENT) 10 Strategic Research Centers > ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research > ARTORG Center - Hearing Research Laboratory
UniBE Contributor:	Caversaccio, Marco, Kompis, Martin
Subjects:	600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
ISSN:	0001-6489
Publisher:	Informa Healthcare
Language:	English
Submitter:	Markus Huth
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2016 11:03
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:52
Publisher DOI:	10.3109/00016489.2015.1067904
PubMed ID:	26223816
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Bone conduction implants; clinical consensus; multicenter study; quality standards
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/76285