title: Cost-effectiveness of implantable middle ear hearing devices.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the relation between cost and effectiveness of implantable middle ear hearing devices in patients with pure sensorineural hearing loss.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four studies were identified that described the effect of middle ear implantation on quality of life in groups of at least 20 patients. Several different quality of life questionnaires were used.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our review demonstrated that middle ear implantation is a cost-effective health care intervention in patients with sensorineural hearing loss who suffered an additional therapy-resistant chronic external otitis.
authors.forename: Ad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Snik
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Verhaegen
authors.forename: Jef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mulder
authors.forename: Cor
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cremers
mesh_terms: D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000191:economics* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009998:Ossicular Prosthesis / Q000191:economics*; D011788:Quality of Life