Objective: Assess speech outcomes in unilateral cochlear implant (CI) recipients after addition of a wireless contralateral routing of signals (CROS) microphone. Study Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Ambulatory. Patients: Sixteen adult unilateral CI users with nonserviceable hearing on the contralateral side were recruited. Those with AzBio sentence scores of 40 to 80% or Hearing in Noise Test – Quiet (HINT-Q) scores of 60 to 90% with a CI alone were eligible participants. Intervention: Speech testing was carried out with the CROS on and off. Main Outcome Measure: Speech recognition. Results: In the consonant-nucleus-consonant test presented in quiet from the front, word scores were 64.4 (CI) and 63.8% (CI + CROS) (p = 0.72), and phoneme scores were...
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