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.