About the Authors

Elke M. J. Devocht

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

elke.devocht@mumc.nl

Affiliation Department of ENT/Audiology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

A. Miranda L. Janssen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of ENT/Audiology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Methodology and Statistics, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Josef Chalupper

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advanced Bionics European Research Centre, Hannover, Germany

Robert J. Stokroos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Current address: Department of ENT/Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Department of ENT/Audiology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Herman Kingma

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of ENT, School for Oncology and Develop Biology (GROW), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Erwin L. J. George

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of ENT/Audiology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

A research grant from Advanced Bionics Inc. to MUMC+ financially supported the work of the first author (E.D.) in this investigator-initiated study. The second author (M.J.) reviewed the manuscript and provided statistical support, made possible by a grant from the Dutch Heinsius-Houbolt Foundation. The third author (J.C.) had a role in designing the study. He holds a scientific post in the Advanced Bionics European Research Center. For the remaining authors no conflicts were declared. The study was designed in cooperation between MUMC+ and Advanced Bionics. Data collection, analysis and the decision to publish were all solely accounted for by MUMC+. The work presented in this manuscript is the intellectual property of MUMC+.