{"title":"Evaluation of a protocol for fitting a wearable master hearing aid.","authors":"M J Collins, H Levitt","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An experimental protocol for the prescriptive fitting of a wearable master hearing aid was evaluated. The protocol consisted of four stages: (i) acquisition of baseline audiometric data, (ii) fixed test battery using speech-in-noise as the test material, (iii) adaptive adjustments, and (iv) evaluative comparative data. The results showed that systematic improvements in hearing-aid performance were obtained as a result of using the experimental protocol and that the largest improvements were obtained during the fixed-test-battery stage. The protocol in its present form is not clinically practical for most situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":75645,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of prosthetics research","volume":"10-35 ","pages":"35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of prosthetics research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An experimental protocol for the prescriptive fitting of a wearable master hearing aid was evaluated. The protocol consisted of four stages: (i) acquisition of baseline audiometric data, (ii) fixed test battery using speech-in-noise as the test material, (iii) adaptive adjustments, and (iv) evaluative comparative data. The results showed that systematic improvements in hearing-aid performance were obtained as a result of using the experimental protocol and that the largest improvements were obtained during the fixed-test-battery stage. The protocol in its present form is not clinically practical for most situations.