Foreword: Special Topics in Clinical Monitoring (sponsor DoD Hearing Center of Excellence; Pharmaceutical Interventions for Hearing Loss Group).
Foreword: Special Topics in Clinical Monitoring (sponsor DoD Hearing Center of Excellence; Pharmaceutical Interventions for Hearing Loss Group).
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前言:临床监测专题(主办机构:国防部听力卓越中心;听力损失药物干预小组)。
DOI:
10.1080/14992027.2018.1495816
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Watts,Kelly
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作者:
Boudin-George,Amy;Brewer,Carmen;Watts,Kelly
This supplemental edition of the International Journal of Audiology (IJA),“Ototoxicity–Special Topics in Clinical Monitoring,” came about via a working group established by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Hearing Center of Excellence (HCE). The HCE is dedicated to focussing on initiatives regarding the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of hearing loss and auditory-vestibular system injury for Service members and Veterans. The HCE formed the Pharmaceutical Interventions for Hearing Loss (PIHL) Working Group so that interests from the DoD, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD), and other federal agencies could be joined with those of academia and industry. An Ototoxicity Monitoring Subcommittee was formed after recognising the need for more standardisation in ototoxicity monitoring protocols and programmes in the DoD and VA, as well as in the private sector. The Ototoxicity Monitoring Subcommittee, a subset of the PIHL Ototoxicity Committee, focuses primarily on clinical issues and solutions to ototoxicity caused by pharmaceuticals and/or ionising radiation.The audiology community has long known that monitoring for medication-induced ototoxicity is helpful in improving or addressing patients auditory and vestibular outcomes subsequent to therapeutic treatment protocols. Though guidance exists to inform monitoring protocols (ASHA 1994; AAA 2009), these documents align more with specific testing and reporting protocols than with strategies to develop successful programmes. Factors related to design of ototoxicity monitoring programmes (OMP) logistics, promotion of the value and importance of audiologic monitoring to stakeholders, as well as communication of significant findings and recommendations to the patient and patient care team may make it difficult to get a programme off the ground if these issues are not considered in the planning stages.