Expanding Clinical Trials Designs to Extend Equitable Hearing Care.
Rolvix Patterson, Marissa Schuh, Matthew L Bush, Carrie L Nieman, Samantha Kleindienst Robler, Susan D Emmett
PMID 35724252WHAT IT FOUND
This paper reviews clinical trial designs to improve hearing care equity.
It describes methods for recruiting underserved populations but reports no patient outcomes or treatment effects. There is nothing here to change clinical practice.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review and methodological commentary discussing how to design clinical trials for underserved hearing loss populations. It describes various study designs (such as cluster RCTs and stepped wedge trials) and highlights specific ongoing or completed studies as examples of these methods, but it does not report new patient outcomes or efficacy data for a specific treatment. There are no findings here to change your clinical practice on.