Importance of the patient’s point of view in determining the functional success in aural rehabilitation by using the international outcome inventory for hearing aids: (Ioi-ha)

Abstract

There is a growing awareness of, the importance of the patient’s point of view in determining the functional success of treatments in health-related fields. In the past, it was common the success of an intervention to be judged by health care professionals of often based on laboratory or technical date. In the present, evaluations still take account these types of data, but also factor in the judgment of the patient about the extent to which the treatment has alleviated the problems that he or she was experiencing in daily life.