Clinical results with cochlear prostheses. Introductory remarks.
Reports on results of cochlear prostheses have left open many questions. More information on implanted persons is needed to counterbalance the fact of small sample size and heterogeneous makeup of the implanted patient groups. The precise use of audiological and phonetic terms in reporting on postimplantation test results could help to clarify the influence of different electrode setups, electrode locations, and coding features, and to make results comparable between different centers.
D001309:Auditory Threshold; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests