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Utility of the New CI Quality of Life Instruments to Personalize and Improve CI Care, in partnership with American Cochlear Implant Alliance

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1.  Patient-reported outcome measures have been highlighted as vital for measuring patient outcomes by which of the following organizations? FDA CMS CDC Both A & B

2.  Do CI users' speech recognition scores correlate to patient self-reported communication abilities? No, not at all Yes, to a small degree Yes, to a medium degree Yes, to a large degree

3.  Which of the following domains was/were identified as important during CI user focus groups? Communication Social Listening effort Entertainment All of the above

4.  Which of the following is a benefit of functional staging systems? Predicts outcomes nearly all of the time Allows patients and clinicians to understand the functional deficits associated with a PROM score Help correlate PROM scores to speech recognition scores There are no substantial benefits of functional staging systems

5.  How can the CIQOL Functional Staging System be used during the CI evaluation process? Allows clinicians to understand the difficulties faced by patients Patients can compare their baseline abilities to normative data Patients can compare their outcome expectations to normative data All of the above