Country	Professionals involved	Views of patients considered	Target users	Views of funding body	Competing interests
Germany	Audiologists, psychiatrist, psychologists, otolaryngologists, dentists, pediatricians, neurologists, and patient representative groups	Patient representative groups were included in the guideline development group; contributed to external review on draft documents, and patient related information was also considered from the results of a literature review	Physicians (especially ENT), phoniatry and pediatric audiology, psychiatry, psychosomatic, neurology, mouth, jaw, and facial surgeons and dentists, psychologists, general practitioners	A statement concerning financial and other interests and editorial independence is included.	Competing interests are declared and when relevant, stakeholders with competing interests were excluded
Denmark	Speech Pathologist and hearing therapists	NS	Hearing therapists	NS	NS
Netherlands	Details provided. ENT-doctors, psychologist, clinical physicist-audiologist	Dutch Association of the Hearing Impaired consulted. A literature review regarding patient preferences was also conducted	ENT doctors, audiology centers, GP's, psychologists, psychiatrists	A statement of independence was signed by professionals involved	Competing interests are declared
USA	Paediatric and adult otolaryngologists, otologists/neurotologists, geriatrician, behavioral neuroscientist, neurologist, audiologist, family physician, radiologist, psychiatrist, psycho-acoustician, nurse, physician, and consumer advocates	Yes: also included a draft of the guideline being made available for public comment	Any clinician, health care provider, specialty physicians, and non-physician providers such as audiologists and mental health professionals	Funded by American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation but no statement of independence from the process	Competing interests are declared
Sweden	Partial details provided—included medical doctors, and professional representatives from the tinnitus teams for diagnostics and rehabilitation	NS	Staff at the audiology and balance clinic at Karolinska University Hospital and professionals that might refer to the clinic (GPs, ENTs or audiologist)	NS	NS