Effective Hearing Loss Screening in Primary Care The Early Auditory Referral-Primary Care Study

 

Journal: NIDCD

Year Published: 2022

Key Findings:  An electronic alert used to remind clinicians to ask patients aged ≥55 years about hearing loss significantly increased audiology referrals for at-risk patients. Audiologic and audiogram data support the effectiveness of the prompt. Clinicians should consider adopting this method to identify patients with hearing loss to reduce its known and adverse sequelae.

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