# Resubmssion: Management of Severe Hearing Loss in the Veterans Health Administration

> **NIH VA I21** · VA  MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · —

## Abstract

Hearing loss is one of the most common service-connected disabilities and may have a
significant impact on quality of life and health. Comprehensive hearing health services mandate
tailored treatments offered for individuals based on degree of hearing loss and patient
preferences. The VA is the ideal setting to study management of severe hearing loss as this is a
prevalent condition among veterans and data from the Audiometric Repository is available to
allow identification of patient, system and provider factors associated with receipt of particular
treatment strategies. A sequential explanatory design using interviews will be conducted with
various stakeholders including Veterans and providers. Results from this pilot will provide new
information on barriers and facilitators of management of severe hearing loss. Educational
materials will be developed to develop and test an implementation approach to achieve best
practices in the treatment of severe hearing loss.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11003291
- **Project number:** 5I21HX003141-05
- **Recipient organization:** VA  MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** David R Friedmann
- **Activity code:** I21 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** VA
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** —
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-08-01 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11003291

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11003291, Resubmssion: Management of Severe Hearing Loss in the Veterans Health Administration (5I21HX003141-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11003291. Licensed CC0.

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