Clinical characteristics of the "Gap" between the prevalence and incidence of hearing loss using National Health Insurance Service data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Hearing loss is the inability to hear speech or sounds well, owing to a number of causes. This study aimed to simultaneously determine the prevalence, incidence, and the Gap between them in hearing loss in South Korean patients at the same point in time as well as to identify patients who have not recovered from hearing loss.

Methods

We examined the prevalence and incidence of patients diagnosed with hearing loss in the National Health Insurance Service database over an 11-year period from 2010 to 2020. The difference between the prevalence and the incidence was defined in this study as the term "Gap". Gap is the number of patients converted into the number of patients per 100,000 people by subtracting the incidence from the prevalence. Clinical characteristics su

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10923459 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature