Objectives: The objectives of this study were to distinguish the equivalent-effectiveness,
health-economic, and actuarial approaches to specifying criteria of candidacy for medical …

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to estimate the cost-effectiveness of unilateral
cochlear implantation for postlingually deafened adults; to study the impact on cost …

Objective: Outcomes from unilateral cochlear implantation in postlingually deafened adults
are variable and difficult to predict precisely from data gathered before surgery. The …

Objective: Adult selection criteria for cochlear implantation have been developed based on
analysis of the post-operative performance of a large group of postlingually deafened adults …

Conclusion: Patients with post-lingual deafness should not be excluded from cochlear
implantation (CI) on the basis of duration of deafness. We found that the prognosis was …

Materials and Methods Subjects Preoperative and 9-month postoperative data were
obtained from 48 consecutively referred postlingual profoundly deaf adults participating in …

Conclusion. Post-lingually deafened patients had good speech intelligibility scores with
cochlear implantation. The age at the operation, duration of deafness, and the number of …

Objective: Prelingually deafened adults tend to demonstrate smaller improvements in
speech recognition after cochlear implantation than do postlingually deafened adults, which …

Cochlear implantation has become the standard procedure for restoring substantial hearing
in the profoundly deaf. The excellent performance of most of the CI recipients coupled with …

Abstract Objectives/Hypothesis: The study tested the hypothesis that among patients with
similar levels of residual hearing in the nonimplanted ear, speech perception outcome is the …