Design, implementation, and management of an international medical device registry.

Background: Registries are powerful clinical investigational tools. Although in hospitals registries may be mandated, industry-sponsored, international registries are voluntary and therefore can require clearer objectives and more planning. The registry also needs sufficient resources and appropriate measurement tools to motivate long-term participation and ensure success.

Patient-Related Benefits for Adults with Cochlear Implantation: A Multicultural Longitudinal Observational Study.

Objectives: To assess subjectively perceived, real-world benefits longitudinally for unilateral cochlear implant (CI) recipients in a multinational population treated routinely. To identify possible predictors of self-reported benefits.

Design: This was a prospective, multicenter, repeated-measures study.

Evaluation of new technology for intraoperative evoked compound action potential threshold measurements.

Objective: To determine whether new technology for intraoperative evoked compound action potential (ECAP) threshold measurements-the CR120 Intraoperative Remote Assistant device-is comparable to the existing Custom Sound(®) clinical system, as well as assess test-retest accuracy of the systems.

Design: Within subject, repeated measures comparative design.

Study Sample: ECAP data were collected from 81 pediatric subjects (41 females and 40 males).

A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda.

The need for policy makers to understand science and for scientists to understand policy processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship is sometimes difficult and occasionally dysfunctional; it is also increasingly visible, because it must deal with contentious issues, or itself becomes a matter of public controversy, or both. We suggest that identifying key unanswered questions on the relationship between science and policy will catalyse and focus research in this field.