Enhancing Person-Centered Audiologic Rehabilitation: Exploring the Use of an Interview Tool Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Core Sets for Hearing Loss.

This is a small feasibility study with four audiologists and 25 patient interviews, so it cannot show that the interview tool improves patient outcomes. The data are mainly audiologists' reflections and a group interview, not direct patient outcomes or patient-reported experiences. The study was done in one Swedish audiology clinic, where hearing care is taxpayer-funded and audiologists provide the rehabilitation, so it may not transfer to other health systems or professions. The interview tool was unpublished and used after an education period, without a control group or randomisation. The audiologists reported that rehabilitation plans were largely unchanged, so the study does not show how the interview content changes clinical decisions.

The project was funded by the Department of Audiology and the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University. The authors declared no commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a conflict of interest.

Do not read this as proof that the interview tool improves hearing outcomes or changes rehabilitation. It reports four audiologists' experiences over 25 interviews, and the rehabilitation plans were largely unchanged.