Feasibility of personalised remote long-term follow-up of people with cochlear implants: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Substantial resources are required to provide lifelong postoperative care to people with cochlear implants. Most patients visit the clinic annually. We introduced a person-centred remote follow-up pathway, giving patients telemedicine tools to use at home so they would only visit the centre when intervention was required.

Objectives

To assess the feasibility of comparing a remote care pathway with the standard pathway in adults using cochlear implants.

Design

Two-arm randomised controlled trial. Randomisation used a minimisation approach, controlling for potential confounding factors. Participant blinding was not possible, but baseline measures occurred before allocation.

Setting

University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service: provider of Natio

SUBMITTER: Cullington H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5914764 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature