Study | Year | Country | Population | Intervention | Comparator | Outcome/Results |
(Ferrari, 2006) [9] | 2006 | Brazil | Patients with mild-moderate sensorineural hearing loss requiring hearing aids. | Remote programming for the hearing aids. | Face-to-face programming for hearing aids. | Teleaudiology programming resulted with decreased needed time for programming, but the quality of programming wasn’t the best because the slow internet bandwidth. |
(Campos & Ferrari, 2012) [15] | 2012 | Brazil | Patients with bilateral symmetric sensorineural mild-severe hearing loss requiring hearing aids. | Remote programming for the hearing aids. | Face-to-face programming for hearing aids. | Hearing aids programming using teleaudiology was efficient and can be performed in cases of face-to-face programming difficulties. |
(Penteado, Ramos et al., 2012) [16] | 2012 | Brazil | Patients with mild-moderate sensorineural hearing loss requiring hearing aids. | Remote programming for the hearing aids. | N/A | Remote programming was possible and with further development of technology it will be time and cost effective for both of the patient and government. |
(Penteado, Bento et al., 2014) [17] | 2014 | Brazil | Patients with hearing loss who had teleaudiology hearing aids programming. | Assessing the patients’ satisfaction for telefitting. | N/A | The results of telefitting were optimistic, it is denoted that the remote programming can be improve healthcare service delivery. |
(Pross, Bourne et al., 2016) [18] | 2016 | USA | Veterans who received hearing aids from January 2014 to September 2014. |
Teleaudiology services | Face-to-face audiology services. | Teleaudiology and face-to-face audiology services are comparable, the benefits of teleaudiology to veterans are superior in remote areas. |
(Venail, Picot et al., 2019) [19] | 2019 | France | Patients with hearing loss requiring hearing aids. | Remote programming for the hearing aids. | Face-to-face programming for hearing aids. | Overall results didn’t provide significant difference between both groups comparing teleaudiology with face-to-face programming. |
(Tao et al., 2021) [20] | 2021 | Australia | Patients with mild symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss requiring hearing aids. | Remote programming for the hearing aids and follow-up consultations. | Face-to-face programming for hearing aids and follow-up consultations. | Teleaudiology programming and follow-up consultations can provide efficient results that doesn’t differ from face-to-face programming and consultations. |