Clinical trials, ototoxicity grading scales and the audiologist's role in therapeutic decision making.
Kelly A King, Carmen C Brewer
PMID 29276851WHAT IT FOUND
No new patient outcomes are reported.
The article describes ototoxicity grading scales and the audiologist's role, but there is no finding to act on.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review and clinical commentary on ototoxicity monitoring, grading scales, and the audiologist's role in communicating hearing changes. It describes existing scales and cites other studies, but it reports no original methods or results from a defined sample, so there is no new finding to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this review as evidence that using an ototoxicity grading scale improves patient outcomes. It describes scales and cites other studies, but it reports no original outcomes from a defined sample.