The Use of Electronic Health Records for Behavioral Phenotyping of School-Age Children With Unilateral Hearing Loss: A Methodological Approach

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the feasibility of using EHRs in examining UHL in school-age children. By restricting our cohort to individuals who were seen in audiology clinic, we were able to capture variables such as educational difficulty that are not routinely ascertained in medical contexts. The proportion of children in this cohort demonstrating a marker of adverse educational progress is consistent with numerous prior observational studies, thus providing validity to this ascertainment approach. We describe challenges encountered in creating this cohort and detail our hybrid approach to ascertaining key variables accurately.PMID:38056484 | DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00610
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research