Publications by authors named "T Aaltonen"
Objective: To study patient-reported hearing aid (HA) rehabilitation outcomes, social-communicative functioning, and expectations/experiences during eight months of HA use.
Design: Three self-reporting instruments, the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA), the Quantified Denver Scale of Communicative Function (QDS), and questionnaires tapping pre-rehabilitation expectations (HA-EXP-Q1) and post-rehabilitation experiences (HA-EXP-Q2) were administered.
Study Sample: 144 patients ages 23-66 with gradually acquired, adult-onset, mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss affecting both ears who acquired their first HAs.
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Background: Perioperative acute kidney injury (AKI) is challenging to predict and a common complication of lower limb arthroplasties. Our aim was to create a machine learning model to predict AKI defined by both serum creatinine (sCr) levels and urine output (UOP) and to investigate which features are important for building the model. The features were divided into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative feature sets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerioperative acute kidney injury and urine output in lower limb arthroplasties.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand
September 2021
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence and perioperative risk factors of acute kidney injury (AKI) in primary elective hip and knee and emergency hip arthroplasty patients. We also aimed to assess the effect of urine output (UOP) as a diagnostic criterion in addition to serum creatinine (sCr) levels. We hypothesized that emergency arthroplasties are prone to AKI and that UOP is an underrated marker of AKI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Research on stigma has been criticized for centering on the perceptions of individuals and their effect on social interactions rather than studying stigma as a dynamic and relational phenomenon as originally defined by Goffman. This review investigates whether and how stigma has been evaluated as a social process in the context of hearing impairment and hearing aid use.
Materials And Methods: Systematic literature searches were conducted within four major databases for peer-reviewed journal articles on hearing impairment and hearing aid rehabilitation.