Priority 8 from the Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss PSP

UNCERTAINTY: Could new developments to digital hearing aids offer improved speech perception in noisy environments for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss? (JLA PSP Priority 8)
Overall ranking 8
JLA question ID 0033/8
Explanatory note Not available for this PSP
Evidence To follow
Health Research Classification System category Ear
Extra information provided by this PSP
Original uncertainty examples

Find a hearing aid that will allow me to hear a person talking to me when in a crowd or social situation  ~  Hearing aids that pick out conversation in a noisy environment  ~  Improving speech intelligibility in hearing aids in noisy environments  ~  Need hearing aids to be better at eliminating background noise

Submitted by Service users x 2, Clinicians x 1, Others x 1
Outcomes to be measured Improved speech perception in noisy environments/Reduction of background noise
PSP information
PSP unique ID 0033
PSP name Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss
Total number of uncertainties identified by this PSP. 87  (To see a full list of all uncertainties identified, please see the detailed spreadsheet held on the JLA website)
Date of priority setting workshop 3 September 2015