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• TITLE: Efficacy of Remote Hearing Aids Programming Using Teleaudiology: A Systematic Review

  AUTHORS: Maryam Hussein Abdullah Ba Mashmous

  KEYWORDS: Telemedicine, Teleaudiology, Hearing Aids and COVID-19 Pandemic

  JOURNAL NAME: E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks, Vol.11 No.1, March 15, 2022

  ABSTRACT: Telemedicine is defined as a system that allows healthcare workers to deliver their services and consultations to the patients remotely without the need of their physical presence within academic institutions, hospitals, and medical clinics aiming to reduce the personal contact and limiting it to the need only. The field of telemedicine is growing every day and facilitating more flexible services for patients around the world especially during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This systematic review was conducted according to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews. Database search was made on several databases including PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, Publons, EMBASE, and Google Scholar using the relevant keywords. Inclusion criteria for articles in our study included the following original research (primary research articles), addressing the efficacy of teleaudiology for hearing aids programming and satisfaction of patients. Results: Seven studies were included in this systematic review article. Included studies were assessed using Cochrane handbook guidelines. Conclusions: The results of this work based on the currently available literature denote that remote programming for the hearing aids using modern technology is effective and provide comparable results with the standard face-to-face clinic programming, even for patients with no previous experience in hearing aids fitting in either of in-person physical presence programming or remotely over the internet using teleconferencing which is known as teleaudiology. Most of the results were positive and support the continuity to develop better facilities to improve the teleaudiology to be an essential part of hearing aids programming with its different types. Minimal results provided negative impact from the participating patients, this resulted because of the non-upgraded infrastructure and facilities of the audiology clinic or the personal computer of the patient in his home/ workplace or both sides don’t have enough specifications to smoothly perform this modern approach.