TY  - JOUR
A1  - Loth, Andreas German
A1  - Vazzana, Caterina
A1  - Leinung, Martin
A1  - Guderian, Daniela
A1  - Issing, Christian
A1  - Baumann, Uwe
A1  - Stöver, Timo
T1  - Quality control in cochlear implant therapy: clinical practice guidelines and registries in European countries
T2  - European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology and head & neck
N2  - Purpose: The treatment with a cochlear implant (CI) is the gold standard in therapy of patients with profound hearing loss or deafness. Successful hearing rehabilitation with a CI is a complex, multi-stage process. In medicine, “Clinical Practice Guidelines” (CPG) are widely accepted for the standardization of such processes. These are supplemented by medical registries in which data regarding the treatment can be collected and evaluated. The aim of this paper is to identify currently existing CI-related CPGs and registries in Europe.
Methods: Between 01/2021 and 06/2021, 42 countries on the European continent, including the United Kingdom, Russia and Turkey, were screened using an internet search (search engine: Google) and a key word search in the Pubmed database. Search terms were the respective country name combined with the following terms: “Cochlear Implant”, “CI”, “Cochlear implant clinical practice guideline”, “CI Guideline”, “Cochlear Implant Registry”, “CI Registry”, “Ear nose throat society”. The internet search was conducted in English as well as in the corresponding national language. The objective was to identify a CI-related CPG or registry.
Results: A CPG was found in 16 of 42 (38%) countries. In terms of population, this accounts for 645 million out of 838 million people (77%). A registry existed in 4 of the 42 (10%) countries assessed. This corresponds to 102 million out of 838 million (12%) people. In total, 4 out of 42 countries (10%) had both a CPG and a registry.
Conclusion: Our work shows numerous efforts in Europe to standardize CI care at the national level. While most people in Europe already live in countries with a CPG, this is not the case for CI registries. European-wide consensus on CPGs or registries does not yet exist. The present study thus provides a first assessment of the distribution of CI-related CPGs and registries.
KW  - Cochlear implant
KW  - Clinical practice guidelines
KW  - Registry
KW  - Europe
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69598
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-695980
SN  - 1434-4726
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 279
IS  - 10
SP  - 4779
EP  - 4786
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -