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  1. Effectiveness of Over‐the‐Counter Hearing Aids Versus Professionally Fitted Devices: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis
  2. Effect Sizes and Statistical Power in Hearing Aid Research
  3. Effects of Hearing Devices for Adults With Mild-to-Severe Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
  4. Usability and Performance of the Apple Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Feature
  5. High-Pass and Low-Pass Filtered Digits-in-Noise Tests for Estimating Frequency-Specific Hearing Loss
  6. Efficacy of Single-Session Intervention of Tinnitus Educational Counseling: A Systematic Review
  7. Correction
  8. Auditory Acclimatization in New Adult Hearing Aid Users: A Registered Systematic Review of Magnitude, Key Variables, and Clinical Relevance
  9. Impact of Preschool Hearing Screening in Low-Income Communities: Program Outcomes and Caregiver Perspectives
  10. Perspectives on Hearing Aid Cost and Uptake for Prescription and Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Users
  11. User Perspectives on Improving Hearing Aids
  12. Digits-in-Noise Test as an Assessment Tool for Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids
  13. Perceptions of Hearing Health Care: A Qualitative Analysis of Satisfied and Dissatisfied Online Reviews
  14. Hearing help-seeking, hearing device uptake and hearing health outcomes in individuals with subclinical hearing loss: a systematic review
  15. Service delivery approaches related to hearing aids in low- and middle-income countries or resource-limited settings: A systematic scoping review
  16. Reasons for hearing aid uptake in the United States: a qualitative analysis of open-text responses from a large-scale survey of user-perspectives
  17. Factors influencing hearing aid use, benefit and satisfaction in adults: a systematic review of the past decade
  18. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Hearing Aid Benefit and Satisfaction: Content Validity and Readability
  19. Factors Associated With Hearing Aid Outcomes Including Social Networks, Self-Reported Mental Health, and Service Delivery Models
  20. Mobile Health Hearing Aid Acclimatization and Support Program in Low-Income Communities: Feasibility Study
  21. Comparing Hearing Aid Outcomes in Adults Using Over-the-Counter and Hearing Care Professional Service Delivery Models
  22. Combined screening of early childhood development, hearing and vision by community health workers using mHealth tools in a low-income community
  23. Extended High-Frequency Audiometry for Ototoxicity Monitoring: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment
  24. Hearing Healthcare Professionals’ Views about Over-The-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aids: Analysis of Retrospective Survey Data
  25. Digits in noise testing in a multilingual sample of Asian adults
  26. Person centered care: preference, experience and predictors in speech-language pathology and audiology students
  27. Mobile Health Hearing Aid Acclimatization and Support Program in Low-Income Communities: Feasibility Study (Preprint)
  28. Advancing Equitable Hearing Care: Innovations in Technology and Service Delivery
  29. International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA) translation into isiXhosa
  30. Effectiveness of an over-the-counter self-fitting hearing aid compared to an audiologist-fitted hearing aid: A randomized clinical trial
  31. mHealth-Supported Hearing Health Training for Early Childhood Development Practitioners: An Intervention Study
  32. The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase) procedure in speech-in-noise testing: Standard error of measurement and fluctuations in the track
  33. Remote Monitoring of Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients Using Digits-in-Noise Self-Testing
  34. Sensitivity of the antiphasic digits-in-noise test to simulated unilateral and bilateral conductive hearing loss
  35. Community-based adult hearing care provided by community healthcare workers using mHealth technologies
  36. m-Health Applications for Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review
  37. Children with Conductive Hearing Loss Fitted with Hearing Aids: Outcomes and Caregiver Experiences in South Africa
  38. Corrigendum: Decentralising paediatric hearing services through district healthcare screening in Western Cape province, South Africa
  39. Perceptions of Telehealth Services for Hearing Loss in South Africa’s Public Healthcare System
  40. Online Reviews of Hearing Aid Acquisition and Use: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis
  41. A Machine Learning Approach to Screen for Otitis Media Using Digital Otoscope Images Labelled by an Expert Panel
  42. A Scoping Review on the Use of the Parents Evaluation of Developmental Status and PEDS: Developmental Milestones Screening Tools
  43. Changes in audiologists’ mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: the supportive role of professional associations, workplaces and hearing device manufacturers
  44. Satisfaction with hearing assessment feedback using the My Hearing Explained tool: client and audiologist perceptions
  45. Digital Approaches to Automated and Machine Learning Assessments of Hearing: Scoping Review
  46. Improving the Efficiency of the Digits-in-Noise Hearing Screening Test: A Comparison Between Four Different Test Procedures
  47. Outcomes of children with sensorineural hearing loss fitted with binaural hearing aids at a pediatric public hospital in South Africa
  48. Corrigendum: Occupational noise and age: A longitudinal study of hearing sensitivity as a function of noise exposure and age in South African gold mine workers
  49. Community-Based Ototoxicity Monitoring for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa: An Evaluation Study
  50. Online Consumer Reviews on Hearing Health Care Services: A Textual Analysis Approach to Examine Psychologically Meaningful Language Dimensions
  51. Experiences With Hearing Health Care Services: What Can We Learn From Online Consumer Reviews?
  52. Hearing Aid Consumer Reviews: A Linguistic Analysis in Relation to Benefit and Satisfaction Ratings
  53. Digital Technology for Remote Hearing Assessment—Current Status and Future Directions for Consumers
  54. Evaluating the PEDS:DM Developmental Screening Tool in Zulu and Northern Sotho
  55. International survey of audiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic: use of and attitudes to telehealth
  56. Digital Approaches to Automated and Machine Learning Assessments of Hearing: Scoping Review (Preprint)
  57. International survey of audiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects on mental well-being of audiologists
  58. Referral Criteria for Preschool Hearing Screening in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Comparison of Protocols
  59. Decentralising paediatric hearing services through district healthcare screening in Western Cape province, South Africa
  60. International survey of audiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects on the workplace
  61. Listening Effort in School-Age Children With Normal Hearing Compared to Children With Limited Useable Hearing Unilaterally
  62. Hearing aid acquisition and ownership: what can we learn from online consumer reviews?
  63. Predictors of hearing technology use in children
  64. Community-Based Hearing and Vision Screening in Schools in Low-Income Communities Using Mobile Health Technologies
  65. Validation of teleaudiology hearing aid rehabilitation services for adults: a systematic review of outcome measurement tools
  66. Is Phonological Awareness Related to Pitch, Rhythm, and Speech-in-Noise Discrimination in Young Children?
  67. Digital Proficiency Is Not a Significant Barrier for Taking Up Hearing Services With a Hybrid Online and Face-to-Face Model
  68. Validation of the Brief International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) core set for hearing loss: an international multicentre study
  69. Mhealth hearing screening for children by non-specialist health workers in communities
  70. Telehealth tinnitus therapy during the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK: uptake and related factors
  71. Profile of childhood hearing loss in the Western Cape, South Africa
  72. Teleaudiology hearing aid fitting follow-up consultations for adults: single blinded crossover randomised control trial and cohort studies
  73. Characteristics and Help-Seeking Behavior of People Failing a Smart Device Self-Test for Hearing
  74. Effect of music instruction on phonological awareness and early literacy skills of five- to seven-year-old children
  75. Does Otitis Media Affect Later Language Ability? A Prospective Birth Cohort Study
  76. Pure-tone audiometry without bone-conduction thresholds: using the digits-in-noise test to detect conductive hearing loss
  77. Listening Effort in Native and Nonnative English-Speaking Children Using Low Linguistic Single- and Dual-Task Paradigms
  78. Exploring the Knowledge and Needs of Early Childhood Development Practitioners from a Low-Resource Community
  79. eHealth Technologies Enable more Accessible Hearing Care
  80. Patient Uptake, Experience, and Satisfaction Using Web-Based and Face-to-Face Hearing Health Services: Process Evaluation Study
  81. Field test of the Rapid Assessment of Hearing Loss survey protocol in Ntcheu district, Malawi
  82. Occupational noise and age: A longitudinal study of hearing sensitivity as a function of noise exposure and age in South African gold mine workers
  83. The International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) – a new tool for describing and reporting interventions in audiology
  84. Rationale and feasibility of a combined rapid assessment of avoidable blindness and hearing loss protocol
  85. Accuracy and Reliability of Smartphone Self-Test Audiometry in Community Clinics in Low Income Settings: A Comparative Study
  86. Extended high-frequency hearing enhances speech perception in noise
  87. Do Smartphone Hearing Aid Apps Work?
  88. Performance and Reliability of a Smartphone Digits-in-Noise Test in the Sound Field
  89. Mobile applications to detect hearing impairment: opportunities and challenges
  90. Hearing care across the life course provided in the community
  91. Supporting hearing health in vulnerable populations through community care workers using mHealth technologies
  92. Patient Uptake, Experience, and Satisfaction Using Web-Based and Face-to-Face Hearing Health Services: Process Evaluation Study (Preprint)
  93. Improving Sensitivity of the Digits-In-Noise Test Using Antiphasic Stimuli
  94. Improving Sensitivity of the Digits-in-Noise Test using Antiphasic Stimuli
  95. Hearing and vision screening for preschool children using mobile technology, South Africa
  96. Detecting developmental delays in infants from a low-income South African community: comparing the BSID-III and PEDS tools
  97. Monitoring Hearing in an Infectious Disease Clinic with mHealth Technologies
  98. Looking Back to Look Ahead
  99. Prioritized Surveillance of Young At-risk South African Children: An Evaluation of the PEDS Tools Referral and Response Characteristics
  100. Hearing loss in preschool children from a low income South African community
  101. A Smartphone National Hearing Test: Performance and Characteristics of Users
  102. Innovation in the Context of Audiology and in the Context of the Internet
  103. Characteristics, behaviours and readiness of persons seeking hearing healthcare online
  104. Prevalence of ear disease and associated hearing loss among primary school students in the Solomon Islands: Otitis media still a major public health issue
  105. Prevalence of otitis media and risk-factors for sensorineural hearing loss among infants attending Child Welfare Clinics in the Solomon Islands
  106. Hearing healthcare in remote or resource-constrained environments
  107. Teleaudiology Services for Rehabilitation With Hearing Aids in Adults: A Systematic Review
  108. The South African English Smartphone Digits-in-Noise Hearing Test: Effect of Age, Hearing Loss, and Speaking Competence
  109. Prevalence of hearing loss at primary health care clinics in South Africa
  110. Erratum: Wideband acoustic immittance for assessing middle ear functioning for preterm neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit
  111. Early detection of developmental delays in vulnerable children by community care workers using an mHealth tool
  112. Evaluating a smartphone digits-in-noise test as part of the audiometric test battery
  113. Modernising speech audiometry: using a smartphone application to test word recognition
  114. Does otitis media in early childhood affect later behavioural development? Results from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study
  115. Improving Equitable Access to Hearing Care
  116. Knowledge and attitudes of early childhood development practitioners towards hearing health in poor communities
  117. A public health approach to pediatric hearing impairment in the Pacific Islands
  118. Community-based hearing screening for young children using an mHealth service-delivery model
  119. Towards low cost automated smartphone- and cloud-based otitis media diagnosis
  120. Self-Reported Hearing Loss and Pure Tone Audiometry for Screening in Primary Health Care Clinics
  121. Extended High-Frequency Smartphone Audiometry: Validity and Reliability
  122. Parental knowledge and attitudes to childhood hearing loss and hearing services in the Solomon Islands
  123. Enhancing Ear and Hearing Health Access for Children With Technology and Connectivity
  124. Associations between cardiovascular disease and its risk factors with hearing loss-A cross-sectional analysis
  125. Diagnostic accuracy of a general practitioner with video-otoscopy collected by a health care facilitator compared to traditional otoscopy
  126. Wideband acoustic immittance for assessing middle ear functioning for preterm neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit
  127. Developmental screening: predictors of follow-up adherence in primary health care
  128. Automated Smartphone Threshold Audiometry: Validity and Time Efficiency
  129. Smartphone-Based Hearing Screening at Primary Health Care Clinics
  130. Smartphone-based National Hearing Test Launched in South Africa
  131. Referral criteria for school-based hearing screening in South Africa: Considerations for resource-limited contexts
  132. Developmental Screening—Evaluation of an m-Health Version of the Parents Evaluation Developmental Status Tools
  133. International Survey of Audiologists' Attitudes Toward Telehealth
  134. Asynchronous interpretation of manual and automated audiometry: Agreement and reliability
  135. Predictors of health-related quality of life in adult cochlear implant recipients in South Africa
  136. Affordable headphones for accessible screening audiometry: An evaluation of the Sennheiser HD202 II supra-aural headphone
  137. mHealth Improves Access to Community-based Hearing Care
  138. Smartphone hearing screening in mHealth assisted community-based primary care
  139. Overview of a public health approach to pediatric hearing impairment in the Pacific Islands
  140. Clinical validation of automated audiometry with continuous noise-monitoring in a clinically heterogeneous population outside a sound-treated environment
  141. Hearing loss in urban South African school children (grade 1 to 3)
  142. Newborn hearing screening at a community-based obstetric unit: Screening and diagnostic outcomes
  143. Predictors of pediatric cochlear implantation outcomes in South Africa
  144. Development and validation of a smartphone-based digits-in-noise hearing test in South African English
  145. Protective benefit of predominant breastfeeding against otitis media may be limited to early childhood: results from a prospective birth cohort study
  146. Diagnosis of hearing loss using automated audiometry in an asynchronous telehealth model: A pilot accuracy study
  147. Prevalence and nature of communication delays in a South African primary healthcare context
  148. Otitis Media Diagnosis for Developing Countries Using Tympanic Membrane Image-Analysis
  149. Smartphone threshold audiometry in underserved primary health-care contexts
  150. Clinical Validity of hearScreen™ Smartphone Hearing Screening for School Children
  151. Distribution Characteristics of Air-Bone Gaps
  152. Diagnostic Hearing Assessment in Schools: Validity and Time Efficiency of Automated Audiometry
  153. Digits-in Noise Hearing Test
  154. Tele-intervention for children with hearing loss: A comparative pilot study
  155. Accuracy of Remote Hearing Assessment in a Rural Community
  156. Pure-tone audiometry outside a sound booth using earphone attentuation, integrated noise monitoring, and automation
  157. Risks associated with communication delays in infants from underserved South African communities
  158. Self-reported hearing loss and manual audiometry: A rural versus urban comparison
  159. Outcomes with OAE and AABR screening in the first 48h—Implications for newborn hearing screening in developing countries
  160. Distribution characteristics of normal pure-tone thresholds
  161. Developmental screening in South Africa: comparing the national developmental checklist to a standardized tool
  162. Profound childhood hearing loss in a South Africa cohort: Risk profile, diagnosis and age of intervention
  163. Does parental experience of the diagnosis and intervention process differ for children with auditory neuropathy?
  164. Tympanometry Screening Criteria in Children Ages 5-7 Yr
  165. The ICF core sets for hearing loss project: Functioning and disability from the patient perspective
  166. Prevalence and risk factors for parent-reported recurrent otitis media during early childhood in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study
  167. Remote evaluation of video-otoscopy recordings in an unselected pediatric population with an otitis media scale
  168. Does the human immunodeficiency virus influence the vestibulocollic reflex pathways? A comparative study
  169. Smartphone hearing screening with integrated quality control and data management
  170. Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening in South Africa?
  171. National survey of paediatric audiological services for diagnosis and intervention in the South African private health care sector
  172. Video-otoscopy recordings for diagnosis of childhood ear disease using telehealth at primary health care level
  173. Recommendations for the medical evaluation of children prior to adoption in South Africa
  174. Paediatric otitis media at a primary healthcare clinic in South Africa
  175. The ICF core sets for hearing loss project: International expert survey on functioning and disability of adults with hearing loss using the international classification of functioning, disability, and health (ICF)
  176. Technology for hearing loss – as We Know it, and as We Dream it
  177. Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening and default on follow-up rescreening—A South African perspective
  178. Vestibular involvement in adults with HIV/AIDS
  179. Validation of remote mapping of cochlear implants
  180. An auditory profile of sclerosteosis
  181. Noise and age-related hearing loss: A study of 40 123 gold miners in South Africa
  182. Diagnostic Pure-Tone Audiometry in Schools: Mobile Testing without a Sound-Treated Environment
  183. Seasonal changes in burrow geometry of the common mole rat (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)
  184. Self-Reported Hearing Loss in Baby Boomers from the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study: Audiometric Correspondence and Predictive Value
  185. False air-bone gaps at 4 kHz in listeners with normal hearing and sensorineural hearing loss
  186. Validity of Automated Threshold Audiometry
  187. Clinical validation of the AMTAS automated audiometer
  188. Asynchronous Video-Otoscopy with a Telehealth Facilitator
  189. Hearing-aid assembly management among adults from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: Toward the feasibility of self-fitting hearing aids
  190. Childhood hearing loss and risk profile in a South African population
  191. Validity of Automated Threshold Audiometry
  192. Validity of diagnostic pure-tone audiometry without a sound-treated environment in older adults
  193. Auditory and otological manifestations in adults with HIV/AIDS
  194. Early detection of infant hearing loss in the private health care sector of South Africa
  195. Efficacy of a community-based infant hearing screening program utilizing existing clinic personnel in Western Cape, South Africa
  196. Hearing profile of gold miners with and without tuberculosis
  197. Systematic review of vestibular disorders related to human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  198. Clinical Status of the Auditory Steady-State Response in Infants
  199. Validity of Diagnostic Computer-Based Air and Forehead Bone Conduction Audiometry
  200. The development of an Afrikaans test for sentence recognition thresholds in noise
  201. Intercontinental hearing assessment – a study in tele-audiology
  202. A Systematic Review of Telehealth Applications in Audiology
  203. International classification of functioning, disability, and health core sets for hearing loss: A discussion paper and invitation
  204. Telehealth in audiology: The need and potential to reach underserved communities
  205. Hearing health-care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa – a role for tele-audiology
  206. Effect of prolonged contralateral acoustic stimulation on transient evoked otoacoustic emissions
  207. Early hearing detection and intervention in South Africa
  208. Sentence recognition in noise: Variables in compilation and interpretation of tests
  209. Auditory steady-state responses to bone conduction stimuli in children with hearing loss
  210. The Need for Standardization of Methods for Worldwide Infant Hearing Screening: A Systematic Review
  211. Auditory steady-state response and auditory brainstem response thresholds in children
  212. EHDI Africa:Advocating for infants with hearing loss in Africa
  213. Early hearing detection and intervention services in the public health sector in South Africa
  214. Maternal views on infant hearing loss and early intervention in a South African community
  215. Auditory pathology in cri-du-chat (5p-) syndrome: phenotypic evidence for auditory neuropathy
  216. Newborn hearing screening in a South African private health care hospital
  217. Auditory steady-state responses for estimating moderate hearing loss
  218. Progress towards early detection services for infants with hearing loss in developing countries
  219. High frequency immittance for neonates: a normative study
  220. A novel service delivery model for infant hearing screening in developing countries
  221. Aided auditory steady-state responses in infants
  222. Infant hearing screening at immunization clinics in South Africa
  223. Globalization of Infant Hearing Screening: The Next Challenge before JCIH?
  224. Audiology in South Africa
  225. Predicting Pure-Tone Thresholds with Dichotic Multiple Frequency Auditory Steady State Responses
  226. Auditory Steady-State Responses for Children With Severe to Profound Hearing Loss
  227. Establishing normal hearing with the dichotic multiple-frequency auditory steady-state response compared to an auditory brainstem response protocol
  228. Estimations of auditory sensitivity for young cochlear implant candidates using the ASSR: preliminary results