TABLE 4.

Pearson correlation analyses for cochlear implant (CI) candidates between best-aided preoperative sentence recognition scores and demographic and audiologic measures

	Sentence Recognition
	AzBio in Quiet (% Key Words Correct) (N = 31)		AzBio in Babble (% Key Words Correct) (N = 16)		CUNY (% Words Correct) (N = 31)
	r Value	(95% Confidence Interval)	r Value	(95% Confidence Interval)	r value	(95% Confidence Interval)
Demographic/Audiologic Measures
Age (years)	0.14	(−0.22 to 0.46)	0.36	(−0.71 to 0.16)	−0.13	(−0.46 to 0.23)
Better ear pure-tone average (dB HL)	−0.44*	(−0.68 to −0.10)	0.18	(−0.61 to 0.34)	−0.42*	(−0.67 to −0.08)
MMSE (raw score)	0.17	(−0.19 to 0.49)	0.34	(−0.18 to 0.70)	0.35	(−0.05 to 0.62)
Reading ability (WRAT score)	0.18	(−0.18 to 0.50)	0.01	(−0.48 to 0.49)	0.22	(−0.14 to 0.53)
SES	0.20	(−0.16 to 0.51)	0.16	(−0.35 to 0.59)	0.21	(−0.15 to 0.52)
Total duration hearing loss (years)	−0.09	(−0.42 to 0.27)	0.19	(−0.33 to 0.61)	−0.16	(−0.48 to 0.20)
Duration hearing loss until CI (years)	−0.06	(−0.40 to 0.30)	0.23	(−0.29 to 0.64)	−0.10	(−0.43 to 0.26)

^*p < 0.05.

HL indicates hearing level; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; SES, Socioeconomic status; WRAT, Wide Range Achievement Test.