Samenvatting van de standaard 'Slechthorendheid' (eerste herziening) van het Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap

- The Dutch College of General Practitioners recently issued a revised version of the practice guideline ‘Hearing impairment’.

- The modification of the screening for hearing impairment, which now takes place in neonates, has resulted in a much lower number of false-positive diagnoses of perceptive hearing loss than under the previous version of the practice guideline.

- The expanded diagnostic possibilities for adults, whether or not implemented by the patients themselves, demand an active approach from the general practitioner towards patients with impaired hearing.

- This guideline helps general practitioners to select patients that will truly benefit from a hearing aid and that will also be more likely to use one. The general practitioner can play an important role by stimulating patients to be referred for a hearing aid.

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2007;151:466-70