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Approximately 1.2 million people in the UK experience severe–to–profound hearing loss, for which cochlear implants are an effective treatment. However, only a small proportion of potentially eligible individuals receive cochlear implantation in the UK. In this issue, Chloe Swords and colleagues explore how referral patterns for cochlear implantation vary across the UK according to ethnicity and socioeconomic measures, in a multi-centre study including over 6000 participants.
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Citation: (2024) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 21(4) May 2024. PLoS Med 21(4): ev21.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v21.i04
Published: May 8, 2024
Copyright: © 2024 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Approximately 1.2 million people in the UK experience severe–to–profound hearing loss, for which cochlear implants are an effective treatment. However, only a small proportion of potentially eligible individuals receive cochlear implantation in the UK. In this issue, Chloe Swords and colleagues explore how referral patterns for cochlear implantation vary across the UK according to ethnicity and socioeconomic measures, in a multi-centre study including over 6000 participants.
Image Credit: Brett Sayles, Pexels