Cochlear Implant Programming: A Global Survey on the State of the Art

Figure 1

Occurrence of MAP changes for the 4 brands (Cochlear, Med-El, AB, and Neurelec). (a) The left panel shows the frequency of changing the default settings at switch-on, as retrieved from the questionnaire and the interview; (b) the mid panel shows the distribution of the frequencies of changing the MAP parameters during the followup sessions, as retrieved from the questionnaire and the interview (Box and Whisker plots with the central dot depicting the median value, the box shows the quartile range and the whiskers show the range); (c) the right panel shows the occurrence of MAP changes as observed in the cross sectional snapshot.