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Seasickness among Icelandic seamen
DiscussionSeasickness and seasickness symptoms together withmal de d ébarquement are common in Icelandic seamen. Working conditions at sea are demanding and seam to affect the seamen ´s health both at sea and ashore, making further research needed.
Source: PLoS One - August 26, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Nanna Yr Arnardottir Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 10455: Estimation of Tinnitus-Related Socioeconomic Costs in Germany
Schulze Despite the high prevalence of tinnitus in Germany of nearly 12% of the general population, there have been no systematic studies on the socioeconomic costs for German society caused by tinnitus so far. Here we analyzed data from 258 chronic tinnitus patients—namely tinnitus severity and health utility index (HUI)—and correlated them with their tinnitus-related public health care costs, private expenses, and economic loss due to their tinnitus percept as assessed by questionnaires. We found correlations of the HUI with health care costs and calculated the mean socioeconomic costs pe...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - August 22, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Konstantin Tziridis Jana Friedrich Petra Br üeggemann Birgit Mazurek Holger Schulze Tags: Article Source Type: research

Coping With Tinnitus During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Conclusions These findings provide suggestions on how to better support those with tinnitus at a time when health care is undergoing rapid changes. Findings can be used by stakeholders, clinical practitioners, and tinnitus support services to devise ways to work more effectively together to improve access to patient-driven, suitable, accessible, and evidence-based support. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.14558514.PMID:33979227 | DOI:10.1044/2021_AJA-20-00188
Source: American Journal of Audiology - May 12, 2021 Category: Audiology Authors: Eldr é W Beukes Joy Onozuka Torryn P Brazell Vinaya Manchaiah Source Type: research

A streamlined pathway for patients with unilateral tinnitus: our experience of 22 patients
ConclusionsThe streamlined unilateral tinnitus patient pathway confers significant benefits to patients, the NHS and wider health economy. Future research should focus on the challenge of scaling and sustaining innovation.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Clinical Otolaryngology - November 12, 2018 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Chantelle Rizan, Prodip Das, Rob Low, Saskia Harden, Nick Groves, Breda Flaherty, Trevor Welland, Mahmood Bhutta Tags: Our Experience Source Type: research

Audiologists, ASHA Needs Your Input to Meet the Changing Needs of Reimbursement
Congress, Medicare, health insurance payers, health care administrators, and patients—all these groups insist on data-driven, efficient, high-quality health care. They also want to hold providers—including audiologists—accountable. These demands mean that changes to the health care system are inevitable, regardless of presidential and congressional races. In today’s health care economy, just about everyone agrees on the inefficiency of the standard, fee-for-service model. Audiology should embrace the changes in reimbursement, service delivery and consumer options. The bottom line? Audiologists need to move away ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 12, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lisa Satterfield Tags: Audiology Advocacy medicare reimbursement Source Type: blogs

Otoneurological symptoms in Brazilian fishermen exposed over a long period to carbon monoxide and noise.
CONCLUSION: The otoneurological complaints were frequent in the population studied that verifies the importance of allowing labyrinth examinations and the need for adopting preventive measures related to noise exposure to carbon monoxide (CO), since they can cause and/enhance various manifestations of labyrinthine vestibular impairment that can affect the quality of life of these workers. PMID: 26356372 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Noise and Health - September 1, 2015 Category: Audiology Authors: Zeigelboim BS, Santos da Carvalho HA, Gonçalves CG, Albizu EJ, Marques JM, Fuck BC, Cardoso R Tags: Noise Health Source Type: research

Chemical labyrinthectomy for the worse ear of adult Nigerians with bilateral Meniere’s disease: preliminary report of treatment outcomes
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of variable titration, low-dose intratympanic gentamycin (ITG) into the worse affected ear of patients with bilateral Meniere’s disease (MD). It is a prospective analytic case series conducted in a tertiary care referral hospital in a developing economy and a tertiary care otologic private ENT clinic. Patients with MD who failed or are intolerant to medical treatment were recruited based on the criteria of definite MD and bilateral ear involvement. 0.75 cc of low-dose (40 mg/ml) buffered gentamycin was injected into the worse affected ear and patients followed...
Source: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - May 19, 2015 Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research