[Expert assessment of hearing loss within the scope of the social compensation law and the law regarding severely handicapped patients].

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Klinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenkrankheiten, Kopf- und Halschirurgie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Prosper-Hospital Recklinghausen.

Published: October 1992

Special problems are described concerning expert opinions on hearing disability and hearing loss with regard to the German Social Rights for Compensation and the laws for handicapped persons. In some aspects there are similarities to the rights of accident insurance, but disability programs question only the degree of handicap present and not the source of the hearing loss. The expert opinion on the subject's ability to work in his or any other profession must only determine the patient's ability to hear and the tasks needed to fulfill the profession. Special attention is given to the problems arising from tinnitus.

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