Retrospective Health Care Utilisation and Current Quality of Life in Adults With Chronic Otitis Media Who Had a Middle Ear Surgery

A Retrospective Mapping of Health Care Utilisation and Current Quality of Life Status in Adult Subjects With a History of Chronic Otitis Media With or Without Cholesteatoma Who Have Undergone a Primary Tympanoplasty

The objective of this multicentre study is to evaluate the standard of care of participants diagnosed with Chronic Otitis Media that have already gone through a first middle ear surgery but still have at least a moderate hearing loss. The study has a retrospective part (extraction of medical chart data) and a prospective part with a survey and three questionnaires collecting data on the use of health care services, on health related quality of life and hearing performance.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult subjects, 18 years or older.
• Subjects with conductive or mixed hearing loss.
• Subjects with historically documented diagnosis of Chronic Otitis Media (COM) with or without cholesteatoma in the operated ear.
• Subjects who have undergone primary tympanoplasty type I-V to improve hearing between 2010-2016.
• Subjects with a Pure Tone Average (PTA)4 air-bone gap ≥30 decibels (dB) OR PTA4 air-bone gap between 25-30 dB with an air conduction threshold PTA4 ≥40 dB HL within 12 months after primary tympanoplasty in the operated ear.
• Subjects who have been recommended by their health care professional to try a hearing aid to improve hearing in the operated ear.
• Pre-op audiogram, maximum 1 year prior to the primary tympanoplasty, and post-op audiogram for the primary tympanoplasty are available.
• Aided audiogram, unaided if no hearing device is used, available between 2018 and the point of enrolment.
• Subjects are fluent in the language used for study questionnaires: German, French, Spanish.
• Subjects are willing and able to provide written informed consent. For France: subjects do not oppose to participate in the study.
• Medical Record data is available throughout the defined data search period, from primary tympanoplasty to point of enrolment.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects are unable or unwilling to comply with the requirements of the study as determined by the investigator.
• Investigator site personnel directly affiliated with this study and/or their immediate families; immediate family is defined as a spouse, parent, child, or sibling.
• Cochlear employees or employees of Contract Research Organizations or contractors engaged by Cochlear for the purposes of this study.

For France only:

• Subjects who are not affiliated to social security.
• Subjects who are under legal protection.