Researchers have concluded that many people are suffering unnecessarily and that treatment provision offered to patients is failing at many levels.
Researchers at SINTEF have been looking into the extent to which previous medical recommendations on the treatment of tinnitus are being followed up by the Norwegian public authorities and health trusts. Their work has been commissioned by the Norwegian Association for the Hard of Hearing.
Many are suffering unnecessarily The main conclusion reached by the SINTEF researchers is that many people with tinnitus are suffering unnecessarily. Major variation in treatment provision The SINTEF researchers have also revealed major variations in the treatment provision available to tinnitus sufferers.
The SINTEF report also concludes by saying that our lack of diagnostic expertise means that patient pathways are entirely incoherent in the field of tinnitus. In their report, the researchers point out that e-learning courses containing information about tinnitus, combined with other basic initiatives, ought to be introduced. Such initiatives should be aimed at both GPs and the patient population.
Georg Træland is a technical audiologist currently heading the tinnitus clinic at Sørlandet Hospital. He has been working with tinnitus and the treatment of this patient population for his entire career. "I have seen innumerable cases of patients who, having initially reported tinnitus symptoms, later recover or experience these as less debilitating as soon as they receive the correct information about what tinnitus actually is.
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