About the Authors

Tobias Weller

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

weller.tobias@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Hearing Center (DHZ), Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Oldenburg, Germany

Max Eike Timm

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Hearing Center (DHZ), Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Oldenburg, Germany

Andreas Büchner

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Hearing Center (DHZ), Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Oldenburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.