To compare cochlear implant (CI) outcomes between cohorts in Australia and Spain using speech perception and patient-reported benefit, and to evaluate the potential utility of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework for cross-centre functional classification.
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
No immediate practice change; findings may inform how clinicians use the ICF framework to measure and report cochlear implant outcomes across different healthcare systems.
Cross-national outcome comparisons using the ICF framework could help standardise cochlear implant success metrics globally, reducing variability in how outcomes are defined and reported.
- 01Cross-national comparison of cochlear implant outcomes between Australian and Spanish cohorts.
- 02Outcomes measured via speech perception tests, patient-reported benefit, and the ICF framework.
- 03ICF framework captures functioning and disability beyond audiometric scores alone.
- 04Findings may support international standardisation of cochlear implant outcome reporting.
- 05Published in a peer-reviewed ENT/audiology journal (European Archives of ORL).
Cochlear implant outcomes can be meaningfully compared across nations using the ICF framework.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42966790
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00405-026-10743-6.
- Journal
- European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- Cochlear implant recipients in Australia and Spain
- Intervention
- Cochlear implantation with ICF-based outcome assessment
- Comparator
- Cross-national cohort comparison (Australia vs. Spain)
Primary outcomes
Speech perception scores; Patient-reported benefit; ICF framework functioning domains