Translating scientific findings to clinical practice

Making appropriate referrals to hearing care, primary care and neurology can contribute to your patients’ overall health and well-being.

While study findings clearly indicate the potential of hearing intervention to contribute to slowing down cognitive decline¹², it may seem beyond the scope or exceeding your expertise as an ENT or a GP to address the topic of cognitive decline with a patient. We at Triton Hearing want to support you in:  

• familiarising you with the topic and the latest research, 

• identifying patients with cognitive problems to raise awareness for the topic and potentially refer them on, getting prepared for the conversation about cognitive health with your patients. 

With the right background knowledge, guidelines, and support materials readily available, we want to ensure that, similar to any other medical condition of the ear requiring medical treatment by a physician, you can make appropriate referrals to the appropriate care professionals including hearing care, primary care and neurology to contribute to your patients’ overall health and well-being.  

References:  

1 Lin, F. R., Pike, J. R., Albert, M. S., Arnold, M., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T., Couper, D., Deal, J. A., Goman, A. M., Glynn, N. W., Gmelin, T., Gravens-Mueller, L., Hayden, K. M., Huang, A. R., Knopman, D., Mitchell, C. M., Mosley, T., Pankow, J. S., Reed, N. S., Sanchez, V., … ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group (2023). Hearing intervention versus health education control to reduce cognitive decline in older adults with hearing loss in the USA (ACHIEVE): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet (London, England), 402(10404), 786–797. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01406-X 

2 Sarant, J. Z., Busby, P. A., Schembri, A. J., Harris, D. C., Fowler, C. (2023). ENHANCE: A Comparative prospective longitudinal study of cognitive outcomes after 3 years of hearing aid use in older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15. DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1302185.