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  • The role of a mobile hearing application in secondary care ENT (HAppENT)

  • G Thompson, A Abdelhamid, A Khudan, S Dobbs, M T Suleman, O M Salem, S Khwaja
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 138 / Issue 3 / March 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 August 2023, pp. 289-296
    Print publication:
    March 2024
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  • Objective

    Sudden hearing loss is a common presentation to ENT. In the authors’ practice, patients often wait many weeks for formal hearing testing. This study aimed to assess whether a tablet-based hearing test, hearTest, could aid clinical decision-making within secondary care ENT.

    Method

    This was a multi-centre, prospective, non-randomised study to assess the feasibility, usability and accuracy of hearTest.

    Results

    In the sample, hearTest was shown to be an acceptable method of testing for hearing loss by both patients and clinicians. The 0.5–4 kHz range had an average clinical agreement rate of 95.1 per cent when compared with formal pure tone audiometry, deeming it an accurate test to diagnose hearing loss.

    Conclusion

    The authors propose that hearTest can be used within ENT as a clinical decision support tool when manual audiometry is not immediately available. Within the authors’ practice, hearTest is used to aid diagnosis and management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss.