Perspective on the Development of a Large-Scale Clinical Data Repository for Pediatric Hearing Research.
Jeffrey W Pennington, Byron Ruth, Jeffrey M Miller, Joy Peterson, Baichen Xu, Aaron J Masino, Ian Krantz, Juliana Manganella, Tamar Gomes, Derek Stiles, Margaret Kenna, Linda J Hood, John Germiller, E Bryan Crenshaw
PMID 31408044WHAT IT FOUND
No therapy finding is reported here.
The paper describes a pediatric hearing research database, not patient outcomes or treatment effects.
What this paper is
This is a perspective describing the development and evaluation of AudGenDB, a pediatric hearing research database. It reports database construction, data quality checks, and suitability for reproducing published studies, but no patient outcomes or treatment effects. There is nothing here to change therapy practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that hearing interventions work. The paper describes a research database and reports no patient outcomes or treatment effects.