Fitting Hearing Aids Using Clinical Prefitting Speech Measures: An Evidence-Based Review

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Killion, M. C., & Gudmundsen, G. I. (2005).

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 16(7), 439-447.

This review investigates the effect of hearing aid prefitting speech measures on self-reported hearing aid satisfaction in individuals who are hearing aid candidates.

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Meta-analyses; randomized controlled trials; non-randomized intervention studies

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For individuals with hearing aids, "no significant correlation between traditional unaided prefitting speech measures and aided satisfaction was found in any of the five studies" (p. 439).

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