KEY POINTS
1. The participants were asked to identify the pathology that caused
hearing loss in patients by referring to their audiological tests. The
results showed that 19% of the participants’ predictions were correct,
38% of them were wrong, 36% of the participants named the type of
hearing loss rather than the pathology, and 7% did not respond.
2. The group of participants with the highest number of incorrect
(42.6%) but also the highest number of correct predictions (31.2%)
were physicians working in university hospitals.
3. It was found that audiological tests were the least helpful in
diagnosing SSCD, LVA and ANSB.
4. If the audiological reports only mention the type of hearing loss,
pathologies such as SSCD and LVA can go unnoticed.
5. All audiological tests should be considered in the decision-making
process to increase the reliability of the diagnosis.