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eAudiology: Real Talk About Real Ear: How to Integrate Rehabilitative Verification into Your Practice

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1.  What can you use when fitting hearing aids to estimate changes in audibility?
  1. Real Ear Insertion Gain
  2. Electroacoustic Analysis
  3. Speech Intelligibility Index
  4. Distortion Test
2.  What is true about first fittings?
  1. All manufacturer fittings to the same loss are equally audible
  2. There is wide variability amongst manufacturers’ audibility
  3. Using the manufacturer’s proprietary algorithm provides the best audibility
  4. You will always be able to get an SII of 70
3.  When were real ear measures introduced?
  1. 1975
  2. 1984
  3. 1997
  4. 2006
4.  Per Mueller and Picou (2010)
  1. Real ear measures are only used in approximately 10% of fittings
  2. Are always used when clinicians have the equipment
  3. Are only used routinely about 50% of clinics that have the equipment
  4. The best algorithm to fit is NAL-NL1
5.  Beck (2010) showed the following?
  1. Patients are 18% more satisfied when hearing aids are fit using real ear measures
  2. Real ear measures lead to greater patient dissatisfaction
  3. Real ear measures results in more follow up appointments than fittings without real ear measures
  4. Real ear measures should only be used for pediatric patients