Application of Decision Aids to Enhance Patient Values and Preferences for Care
by Amyn Amlani, PhD Shared-decision making is a core component of evidence-based health care, allowing for evidence to guide decisions about the treatment intervention of that individual patient while considering their needs, values, and preferences. In hearing care, providers are skilled at diagnosing hearing sensitivity but are less effectively in assessing whether the treatment they…
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US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 5 – The Markup Ratio
The series on hearing aid pricing began in fall 2020 with a look at average nominal (Part 1) and inflation-adjusted (Part 2) wholesale costs. As we moved into 2021, readers were presented with findings for the average nominal (Part 3) and inflation-adjusted (Part 4) retail costs. In the fifth, and final, installment of this series,…
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US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 4 – Inflation-Adjusted Retail-Side Trends
In our series on hearing aid pricing, readers have been provided with data on average nominal (Part 1) and inflation-adjusted (Part 2) wholesale hearing aid price, and, more recently, with average nominal retail hearing aid pricing (Part 3). In the fourth installment of this series, the reader is presented with a comparison between unadjusted and…
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US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 3 – Nominal Retail-Side Trends
In late 2020, readers were provided with data on nominal and inflation-adjusted wholesale hearing aid prices. In this third installment in this series on hearing aid pricing, the reader is presented with nominal retail hearing aid pricing. What is the Retail Cost of a Hearing Aid? The response to this question varies, with…
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US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 2 – Inflation-Adjusted Wholesale-Side Trends
Earlier this fall, readers were provided a commentary on wholesale nominal pricing in the US market. In our continuation of pricing in the US hearing aid market, we compare unadjusted and inflation-adjusted, wholesale cost of a single unit device over time. Consumer Price Index (CPI) The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was used to…
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