Optimizing Care Delivery by Applying an Innovative Shared Medical Appointment Model for Determination of Cochlear Implant Candidacy.

Objective: To develop and implement an innovative group appointment with the potential to improve access to cochlear implantation (CI) while maintaining patient satisfaction and experience.

Patients: Adult patients with advanced sensorineural hearing loss.

Interventions: Implementation of novel shared medical appointment (SMA) model.

Successful cochlear implantation in a case of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

Objective: To characterize the auditory phenotype of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKH) and highlight the potential for successful cochlear implantation (CI).

Patients: Single case report

Intervention(s): Therapeutic

Main Outcome Measure(s): AzBio Sentences in quiet and noise, CNC Words, BKB-SIN RESULTS: VKH is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by granulomatous uveitis accompanied by neurologic and auditory-vestibular symptoms. Development is attributed to an autoimmune response against pigmented cells, with destruction of melanocytes by T lymphocytes directed against an unidentified antigen; accordingly, the disease typically affects races with darkly pigmented skin.