title: [Analysis of the clinical application effect of tinnitus diagnosis and treatment process].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical application effects of tinnitus diagnosis and treatment process.
  
  
  METHODS
  The 1541 clinic patients with tinnitus were included in the diagnosis and treatment process. The diagnosis was clarified based on comprehensive examinations and tests. According to the characteristics of tinnitus, the patients underwent etiological treatment, drug therapy, masking therapy, sound therapy and psychological therapy, respectively, and the curative effect was evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 781 patients received etiological treatment, where the effective rate is 86.17%. For 369 cases of acute and subacute tinnitus, the effective rate for low frequency tinnitus is 80.77% (126/156), and that for high frequency is 72.30% (154/213). For 224 cases of chronic compensated tinnitus, the effective rate of masking therapy is 79.63% (86/108), and the effective rate of sound therapy is 79.31% (92/116). For the 124 cases of chronic decompensated tinnitus, the effective rate of sound therapy combined with psychological counseling is 83.06%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The utilization of tinnitus diagnosis and treatment process can give the patients of tinnitus with different characteristics satisfactory curative effects, and is suggested to be proposed for clinical application.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Mingxin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Huifang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D003376:Counseling; D006801:Humans; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome