TABLE III.

Device Manufacturer, Electrode Location, and Hearing Outcomes for Lateral Wall Electrode Designs.

	Advanced Bionics Corp	Cochlear Corp	MED-EL GmbH
	(N = 21)	(N = 10)	(N = 16)	P Value
Completely in the  scala tympani?	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Yes	18 (85.7)	9 (90.0)	15 (93.8)	0.733
No	3 (14.3)	1 (10.0)	1 (6.2)
Hearing  performance	N, median  IQR	N, median  IQR	N, median  IQR	P Value
CNC word score  (%)	11, 48.0	4, 64.0	5, 44.0	0.457
	34,58	35,70	19,57
HINT (%)*	12, 0.8	0, –	6, 0.7	1.000
	0,1	–	0,1
AzBio (%)	3, 0.7	4, 0.9	1, 0.6	0.089
	0,–	0,1	0,1

^*No Cochlear Corp implants had HINT scores available for review.

Abbreviations: AzBio = Arizona Biomedical sentences; CNC = consonant-nucleus-consonant word tests; HINT = Hearing in Noise Test; IQR = interquartile range.