PP101 - Patient-Centered Report Writing

Abstract:
Severity, configuration, and type of hearing loss are enough for to determine amplification candidacy and ICD 10 diagnostic codes; however, hearing loss extends beyond the audiogram. Report writing for diagnostic testing should go beyond the clinical interpretation for insurance and extend into characterizing a patient's loss by its ability to impact activities of daily living.

Summary:
The purpose of this teaching poster is to inform peers of the importance of including interpretation of diagnostic testing beyond severity, configuration, and type of hearing loss in report writing. Recipients of audiologic reports are not restricted to those with communication-based healthcare knowledge. Reports need to be patient centered so that all persons involved in a patient's life socially, emotionally, and medically have an equal understanding of how the hearing loss. Creating a patient centered report enhances patient understanding of their own health condition for them to educate others. The quality of tertiary report viewing has the potential to increase improvement in good communication strategies and communication partner elocution. Understanding of impact increase the potential for intervention support by individuals involved in patient's lives. Patient centered report writing for diagnostic audiologic testing include relaying results with the test presentation method and what the data could mean outside of the sound booth. There are several tools that can be utilized by clinicians to aid in the interpretation of loss beyond severity, configuration, and type. Audiogram specific tools include the Audiogram of Familiar Speech Sounds and the Count-the-Dot Audiogram. Subjective measures include self administered questionnaires, most comfortable loudness levels, uncomfortable loudness levels, as well as speech in noise measures.