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Highlights from AuDACITY 2016: Innovations and Disruptions in Audiology

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1.  Consequences of hearing loss include all of the following EXCEPT: low ratings of subjective well being toward end of life mobility limitations in women higher IQ increased risk of mortality in men

2.  What is the association between hearing loss and risk of falls? Hearing loss lowers one's risk of falls Hearing loss increases one's risk of falls Hearing loss and risk of falls are not associated This association has never been studied

3.  A leading reason why more people do not get hearing aids is: cost technology is not effective not enough professionals dispensing hearing aids people don't know what hearing aids are

4.  The presenters make the point that PSAPs: should be illegal may serve the needs of some people with mild hearing loss are too expensive have poor quality

5.  The task of the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine committee looking at hearing healthcare for adults was to improve: accessibility and affordability of hearing healthcare for consumers convenience and profitability for hearing healthcare providers cost savings for Medicare and Medicaid quality of hearing aids

6.  All of the following are recommendations from the NASEM committee EXCEPT: Develop metrics to improve patient outcomes with hearing care Promote hearing care in wellness visits Enforce the FDA requirement for medical evaluation or waiver prior to purchasing hearing aids Improve publicly available info on hearing health

7.  Creative destruction refers to: creative forces destroying innovation to maintain the status quo working against consumers to benefit a specific industry developing new ways of doing things or finding new markets by innovators and entrepreneurs, which threatens incumbents stimulating the economy by creative investments

8.  Trends that are impacting audiology include all of the following EXCEPT: healthy aging movement shortage of audiologists rapidly aging population too many audiologists competing with each other

9.  An innovative hearing care delivery model is: mHealth (mobile health) apps ENT office hospital based hearing aid dispensing clinic audiology private practice

10.  Three types of teleaudiology are: store and forward results; real time data collection; remote monitoring diagnosis, treat, counsel vestibular, tinnitus, and speech selecting, fitting and counseling

11.  Jacobs and Saunders (2014) studied VA patients who had their hearing aids programmed remotely. They found: patients preferred face to face programming remote service was rated "just as good or better" patients did not comply with remote programming and did not complete the fittings remote programming was rated as "poor"

12.  Dr. Taylor identifies opportunities for new service delivery models among which three groups of patients? pediatrics, tinnitus patients, implant candidates pediatrics, vestibular patients, implant candidates tinnitus patients, implant candidates, younger milds existing patients, younger milds, older olds

13.  According to the Stages of Change model, in which stage is a patient most ready to pursue solutions for their hearing loss? pre-contemplation contemplation preparation action

14.  Mild cognitive impairment: is the same as dementia is defined as noticeable and measurable memory problems that do not impact daily function or independence is another name for Alzheimer's disease is cured by hearing aids

15.  Rationale for audiologists performing cognitive screening includes: reimbursement is high for cognitive screening audiologists can treat cognitive decline hearing loss can exacerbate undiagnosed cognitive issues audiologists need to expand their scope of practice to include more types of patients