Reliability of Postsurgical Soft Tissue Reaction Grading Scales for Bone-anchored Hearing Implants. 2021

Aren Bezdjian, and Nabil Nathoo-Khedri, and Ruben M Strijbos, and Maida Sewitch, and Hans G X M Thomeer, and Sam J Daniel
Department of Experimental Surgery.

This study aims to assess and compare the reliability of the Holgers, the IPS, and the Tullamore scales for skin tolerability assessment of postoperative bone-anchored hearing implant images. A survey study and retrospective review of percutaneous osseointegrated auditory implant images for scoring using three skin classification scales. McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Healthcare workers experienced and inexperienced with osseointegrated auditory implant skin classification scales. Participation involved completing: 1) survey questionnaires assessing experience with osseointegrated auditory implants and related skin reactions and 2) scoring postoperative osseointegrated auditory implant with surrounding skin images using the Holgers Classification, the IS (of the IPS) scale, and the Tullamore Classification. Participants were asked to rate 12 images of postoperative osseointegrated auditory implant and surrounding soft tissue. This process was repeated until participants scored all images using the three scales; each rater graded 36 images in total. The order in which scales were presented occurred at random. Intraclass correlation coefficients were calculated to assess reliability. Thirty-one participants were recruited to the study. Fourteen (45.2%) had experience with at least 1 osseointegrated auditory implant skin classification scale, while 17 (54.8%) did not have experience. The wide and overlapping 95% confidence intervals of the intraclass correlation coefficients results do not provide us with enough evidence to define a well-established degree and hierarchy of reliability when comparing the scales. Among experienced raters, all scales presented moderate to good reliability. The Holgers Classification, the IPS scale, and the Tullamore Classification all present moderate to good reliability when used by experienced raters to assess skin reactions following surgical implantation of an osseointegrated hearing device. As a result, clinicians should use these scales with a degree of caution. The findings of this study do not provide us with enough evidence to single out one of the scales as a standard to follow, but more extensive studies are required to assess the reliability of the scales.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006309 Hearing The ability or act of sensing and transducing ACOUSTIC STIMULATION to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. It is also called audition. Audition
D006310 Hearing Aids Wearable sound-amplifying devices that are intended to compensate for impaired hearing. These generic devices include air-conduction hearing aids and bone-conduction hearing aids. (UMDNS, 1999) Ear Molds, Hearing Aid,Aid, Hearing,Aids, Hearing,Hearing Aid
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000077280 Bone-Anchored Prosthesis A prosthesis designed to attach directly to the bone via fixtures implanted into the bone rather than a socket. Bone Anchored Devices,Bone-Anchored Amputation Prosthesis,Bone-Anchored Implants,Intraosseous Transcutaneous Amputation Prosthesis,Osseo-Anchored Prosthesis,Osseo-Integrated Implants,Osseointegrated Implants,Amputation Prostheses, Bone-Anchored,Amputation Prosthesis, Bone-Anchored,Bone Anchored Amputation Prosthesis,Bone Anchored Device,Bone Anchored Implants,Bone Anchored Prosthesis,Bone-Anchored Amputation Prostheses,Bone-Anchored Implant,Bone-Anchored Prostheses,Device, Bone Anchored,Implant, Bone-Anchored,Implant, Osseo-Integrated,Implant, Osseointegrated,Osseo Anchored Prosthesis,Osseo Integrated Implants,Osseo-Anchored Prostheses,Osseo-Integrated Implant,Osseointegrated Implant,Prostheses, Bone-Anchored,Prostheses, Osseo-Anchored,Prosthesis, Bone-Anchored,Prosthesis, Bone-Anchored Amputation,Prosthesis, Osseo-Anchored
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective
D015203 Reproducibility of Results The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results. Reliability and Validity,Reliability of Result,Reproducibility Of Result,Reproducibility of Finding,Validity of Result,Validity of Results,Face Validity,Reliability (Epidemiology),Reliability of Results,Reproducibility of Findings,Test-Retest Reliability,Validity (Epidemiology),Finding Reproducibilities,Finding Reproducibility,Of Result, Reproducibility,Of Results, Reproducibility,Reliabilities, Test-Retest,Reliability, Test-Retest,Result Reliabilities,Result Reliability,Result Validities,Result Validity,Result, Reproducibility Of,Results, Reproducibility Of,Test Retest Reliability,Validity and Reliability,Validity, Face

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