Criteria Success and guidelines

Criteria of success And Technical guidelines In Ear and Hearing Care
CBM‘s advisory working group in EHC

The following document is a compendium of articles produced by the members of the CBM‘s advisory working group in ear and hearing care. It has been reviewed by other professionals in this field of work and it is intended as a support tool for regional directors, regional advisors, programme coordinators and professionals in ENT, audiology, primary health care, community based rehabilitation and any other area of service and public health where CBM is involved, with the purpose to improve the quality of life of people living with hearing loss, to prevent the occurrence of hearing impairment and to manage its consequences in both the person and the society.

It is not designed or intended as a final rigid operative manual; on the contrary, it is presented as a flexible working tool, a document to be adapted and accommodated to the perceived needs of the local community where it is to be used and, if required, further developed.

There are two types of documents:

1. Criteria of success.

Designed to provide the ideal standards of service, care and management for the main aspects of the work in this mandate. Ten documents on criteria of success have been produced, grouping relevant topics which share similar outcomes and standards of practice.

They have been developed considering the differences applying to such a wide diversity existing in geographical, economical and socio-political circumstances in which the CBM projects are functioning. They are presented as a reference document, not a policy, for directors, advisors, co-ordinators and/or planners at local, district, national or regional level.

2. Technical guidelines.

Designed as practical tools to have at hand when working in developing countries in the mandate of ear and hearing care. There are 15 topics for which technical guidelines have been developed, considering their high prevalence and/or relevance, as per the advice of people working in the related areas of this field.

This set of technical guidelines is not a complete or comprehensive list, but a set of documents produced in the hope to be able to aid the CBM workers and their projects when serving at the front line of care. 4

Structure table Back

Table showing technical guidelines distributed as per criteria of success. Cos nº	Criteria of success:	Tg nº	Technical guidelines associated to cos:
1.		Raising awareness & health education
2.		Training at all levels
3.	Congenital hearing loss	3.1.	Congenital hearing loss
4.	Acquired hearing loss and related ear conditions	4.1.	Presbyacusis
4.2.		Noise induced hearing loss
4.3.		Sudden hearing loss
4.4.		Ototoxicity
4.5.		Hearing loss & vertigo
4.6.		Hearing loss & tinnitus
5.	Otitis media	5.1.	Acute otitis media
5.2.		Chronic otitis media & cholesteatoma
5.3.		Otitis media with effusion
6.	Conditions of the external ear	6.1.	Otitis externa & other conditions of external ear
7.	Ear surgery in developing countries	7.1.	Ear surgery in developing countries
8.	Conducting a hearing survey	8.1.	Conducting a hearing survey
9.	Infant & child screening	9.1.	Infant & child screening
10.	Affordable hearing instruments	10.1.	Affordable hearing instruments