Use of a Graded Profile Analysis to assess cochlear implant candidacy: recent findings

How is the Children's Implant Profile used in the Cochlear Implant Candidacy Process?

“…Those with fewer areas of concern were more likely to be implanted. More recently, in 2004, MacDonald et al reported similar results [11].…”

“…Some centers have conducted a retrospective analyses of their ChIPs and demonstrated high degree of consistency between the overall score and the decision taken [10,11]. In none of them, however, was the decision based solely on the score.…”

Speech Perception Outcome in Multiply Disabled Children Following Cochlear Implantation: Investigating a Predictive Score

“…Effects of patient characteristics (i.e., age, duration of implant use) and pre-implant scores (GPA and functional disability score) on the dichotomized postimplant PROSPER score were examined by t-tests. The GPA variable was analyzed in two ways: first by its continuous form (using the t-test) and by a dichotomized form (.8) to reflect the range of scores for children typically receiving a cochlear implant in our center (Daya et al, 1999;MacDonald et al, 2004). The latter was tested using a chi-square test; details are provided in Table 4.…”

“…Pre-implant GPA scoring was completed for each child prospectively by a multidisciplinary team, including a speech therapist, auditory verbal therapist, and implant audiologist. This tool has been reported and shown to be a valid predictor of postimplant speech perception scores (Daya et al, 1999;MacDonald et al, 2004). It is used during the candidacy assessment process and helps to steer decisions on implantation.…”

Effects of cochlear implant use on the electrically evoked middle latency response in children

“…All children received cochlear implants after a multi-disciplinary graded proWle analysis of candidacy which has been reported previously (Daya et al, 1999;MacDonald et al, 2004). Repeated measures were made over the Wrst year of implant use in 50 children (longitudinal group).…”