Fitting hearing aids requires sound clinical judgment, knowledge about the patient’s perspective and familiarity with research. There are many critical steps in the fitting process and if you haphazardly gloss over any essential part of this process, suboptimal patient benefit could be the result. In the everyday practice of fitting hearing aids, we develop many beliefs about both the technology and the fitting procedures. These beliefs often are based on:
But for most of us, not all of them really are true. In Volume 4 of Research Quick Takes, Brian and Gus review six common misconceptions about the hearing aid fitting process, where these misconceptions may have originated and how the latest research might better inform our clinical judgment and attention to detail.
