Hearing Loss is Associated with Poorer Ratings of Patient–Physician Communication and Healthcare Quality

This work was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to CA (MOP-86672 and IAO-82035). Marie Eve Brault was a Cole Foundation Fellow and was supported by a Studentship from the Fonds de la Recherche en Sant e du Qu ebec (FRSQ). Ricky Kwan was supported by a Lady Davis Institute—Toronto Dominion Bank Studentship and by a McGill University Faculty of Medicine Internal Studentship. Chantal Autexier is a National Researcher, and Jonathan Afilalo is a Clinical Research Scholar of the FRSQ. Conflict of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to report. Author Contributions: Brault, Autexier, Afilalo: study conception and design, interpretation of data, preparation of manuscript. Brault, Ohayon: Kwan: laboratory experiments, interpretation of data, review of manuscript. Eisenberg, Bergman, Boivin: study design, interpretation of data, review of manuscript. Morin, Langlois: harvesting tissue samples, review of manuscript. Sponsor’s Role: None.

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