Does the evidence support use of the Baha implant system (Baha) in patients with congenital unilateral aural atresia?

Purpose: To determine if the evidence supports the recommendation of Baha implant systems (Bahas) over unaided conditions in persons with conductive hearing loss due to congenital unilateral aural atresia (CUAA), and if laboratory measures predict patient benefit and satisfaction.

Research Design: A systematic review.

Methods: The authors constructed and submitted search strings to PubMed and other electronic databases to identify studies in peer-reviewed journals that were at an appropriate level of evidence (systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, or nonrandomized intervention studies); used outcome measures assessing audibility, localization, or speech-recognition in noise; included patients with CUAA using Bahas; and had intrepretable data.

Parents' compliance with and impressions of a maturing community-based early hearing detection and intervention program: an update.

Background: For quality assurance reasons, it is important to monitor the services provided over time for infants and their families through both hospital and community-based early hearing detection and intervention programs (EHDIPs) and to compare results for local programs to national benchmarks. This two-part study is an update to earlier reports published for a particular EHDIP.

Purpose: To evaluate a maturing, diverse community-based EHDIP partially managed through a private practice in Santa Barbara, California, and to compare results to earlier reports for this program and to national data.