Audiology Assessment

Comprehensive hearing evaluation covering audiometric testing, tinnitus, vestibular function, and communication impact.

Scoring

Instrument: Hearing Level Grade, based on pure tone average.

• Normal (≤ 25 dB), Mild (26–40 dB), Moderate (41–55 dB), Moderately Severe (56–70 dB), Severe (71–90 dB), Profound (> 90 dB).

What it covers

Demographics; chief complaint; hearing history (duration, progression, prior assessments); audiometric results (pure tone audiometry, speech recognition, tympanometry); tinnitus assessment; vestibular symptoms (dizziness, vertigo, balance); otoscopic findings; medical history (noise exposure, ototoxic medications); and functional/communication impact on social participation and quality of life.

Common pitfalls

• Grading by pure tone average alone, ignoring functional impact — two people with the same audiometric grade can have very different real-world communication difficulty; the functional/communication section exists to capture that.
• Missing ototoxic medication history — some common drug classes (certain antibiotics, chemotherapy agents, high-dose aspirin) cause or worsen hearing loss; a history without medication review can miss a modifiable cause.
• Treating tinnitus as incidental — tinnitus assessment is its own section for a reason; its severity and impact don't always track with the degree of measured hearing loss.

Learn more

• FormExamples: audiology-assessment for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
• Audio Vestibular Assessment, Hearing Aid Assessment for related hearing assessments.