[The Freiburg monosyllable word test in postoperative cochlear implant diagnostics].

CONCLUSION: The Freiburg monosyllable word test can be performed successfully by the majority of CI patients. The limited balance of the test lists elicits the conclusion that an adaptive test procedure with the Freiburg monosyllable test does not make sense. The Freiburg monosyllable test can be restructured by resorting all words across lists, or by omitting individual words of a test list to increase the reliability of the test. The results show that speech intelligibility in quiet should also be investigated in CI recipients al levels below 70 dB.
PMID: 27393292 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: HNO - July 11, 2016 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: HNO Source Type: research