1. King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center (KAESC), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2. Aljaber Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Specialized Hospital, Ministry of Health, Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
3. Isra Aljazeeri shared first author.
4. Research Department, Research Department, MED-EL GmbH, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
5. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
6. Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
7. Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery, Comprehensive Hearing Center, Würzburg, Germany
8. Word Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw/Kajetany, Poland
9. Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery/Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
10. Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
11. Division of Surgery, Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
12. Department of Audiology, Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
13. School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
14. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, University Hospital St. Poelten, St. Poelten, Austria
15. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
16. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Experimental Laboratory of Translational Neurosciences and Dento-Otolaryngology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
17. Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA
18. Meders Speech and Hearing Clinic, Meders İşitme ve Konuşma Merkezi, İstanbul, Turkey
19. Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
20. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital La Paz, IdiPAZ Research Institute, Madrid, Spain
21. Biomedical Research Networking Centre on Rare Diseases, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
22. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
23. Audiology Unit, ENT Department, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
24. Hearing Implant Program, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
25. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
26. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
27. Department of Teleaudiology and Screening, World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland
28. Faculty of Dental Medicine, Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
29. Institute of Sensory Organs, Nadarzyn/Kajetany, Poland
30. Center of Hearing and Speech “Medincus,” Nadarzyn/Kajetany, Poland
31. Madras ENT Research Foundation MERF Institute of Speech and Hearing, Chennai, India
32. Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
33. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
34. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
35. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
36. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
37. Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
38. Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
39. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
40. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
41. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
42. Clinical Research Department, MED-EL GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria; and