Open AccessElectronic Health Records As a Platform for Audiological Research: Data Validity, Patient Characteristics, and Hearing-Aid Use Persistence Among 731,213 U.S. Veterans
Author(s) -
Gabrielle H. Saunders,
Lauren K Dillard,
O. Zobay,
John F. Can,
Graham Naylor
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000980
Subject(s) - medicine , bivariate analysis , veterans affairs , persistence (discontinuity) , missing data , sample (material) , hearing aid , descriptive statistics , audiology , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , geotechnical engineering , chromatography , engineering
This article presents a summary of audiological, general health, and hearing aid (HA) outcome data in a large sample of U.S. Veterans receiving HAs. The current article also provides the foundation for a series of papers that will explore relationships between a wide range of factors and HA outcomes.