 | | October 12, 2023 | Message from the Director Toward developing meaningful outcome measures for adult hearing health care, and an update on NIDCD's September advisory council meeting  More than 30 million adults in the U.S. are estimated to have some degree of hearing loss. Audiologists and other health professionals use several tools to diagnose adult hearing loss, but these tools do not, in large part, assess individuals' perceptions of their own hearing function or the impact that hearing impairment has on their quality of life. In this director's message, I describe NIDCD's efforts to support the development of standard measurement outcomes in adult hearing health care that are meaningful to both the individual with hearing loss and their clinician, and how this may inform data standards for centralized repositories. Read more » | | | | | | | The NIDCD, part of the National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts research and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language and provides health information, based upon scientific discovery, to the public. For more information about NIDCD programs, see our website at www.nidcd.nih.gov. NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health® U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) |   | | |
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