17 May 2024

Call for audiology input on tinnitus management

The INTEGRATE network of ENT clinicians has opened a UK-wide national project called the ACCEPT Audit. It will follow new patients presenting with tinnitus throughout their journey until they are discharged from secondary care.

The patient experience will be audited against current NICE and BSA guidelines. INTEGRATE hopes to identify areas requiring more support to provide patients and clinicians with better outcomes for this condition.

The project is open to ENT, audiology, and audiovestibular clinicians who work in secondary care and see patients with tinnitus. It closes to data collection on 1 July 2024.

INTEGRATE is a trainee-led network of ENT clinicians established in 2014 to undertake large-scale national collaborative studies.

Over the years, it has undertaken many studies across the subspecialties of ENT and involved nearly 700 clinicians from more than 160 UK centres in its projects.

The recent CIRCA project, published in PLOS Medicine, looked at factors associated with access to cochlear implantation across the UK. It was the first of INTEGRATE's projects to collaborate with clinicians outside the ENT network, involving audiologists from across the UK.

To participate in the ACCEPT study, follow the instructions on the INTEGRATE website or contact the team at [email protected].