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The role of a mobile hearing application in secondary care ENT (HAppENT)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2023

G Thompson Open the ORCID record for G Thompson [Opens in a new window] ,
A Abdelhamid ,
A Khudan ,
S Dobbs ,
M T Suleman ,
O M Salem  and
S Khwaja
G Thompson*
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
A Abdelhamid
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
A Khudan
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
S Dobbs
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
M T Suleman
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
O M Salem
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
S Khwaja
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
*
Corresponding author: Gabrielle Thompson; Email: gabrielle.thompson1@nhs.net
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Abstract

Objective

Sudden hearing loss is a common presentation to ENT. In the authors’ practice, patients often wait many weeks for formal hearing testing. This study aimed to assess whether a tablet-based hearing test, hearTest, could aid clinical decision-making within secondary care ENT.

Method

This was a multi-centre, prospective, non-randomised study to assess the feasibility, usability and accuracy of hearTest.

Results

In the sample, hearTest was shown to be an acceptable method of testing for hearing loss by both patients and clinicians. The 0.5–4 kHz range had an average clinical agreement rate of 95.1 per cent when compared with formal pure tone audiometry, deeming it an accurate test to diagnose hearing loss.

Conclusion

The authors propose that hearTest can be used within ENT as a clinical decision support tool when manual audiometry is not immediately available. Within the authors’ practice, hearTest is used to aid diagnosis and management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Keywords

Hearing losssudden hearing losssensorineural hearing losshearing testaudiologypure tone audiometry
Type
Main Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 138 , Issue 3 , March 2024 , pp. 289 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of J.L.O. (1984) LIMITED

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Footnotes

Gabrielle Thompson takes responsibility for the integrity of the content of the paper

Presented as a poster at British Academic Conference of Otolaryngology, 16 February 2023, Birmingham, UK, and Association of Otolaryngologists in Training, 9 June 2023, Manchester, UK.

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