A Health Service Research Study on a Low-Threshold Hearing Screening Program for Childhood Cancer Survivors in Switzerland: Protocol for the HEAR Study

Philippa Jörger   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Carina Nigg   ¹ , PhD ;   Luzius Mader   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Sven Strebel   ^{1, 2, 4} , PhD ;   Martin Kompis   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Zuzana Tomášiková   ⁶ , DI ;   Christina Schindera   ^{1, 7} , MD, PhD ;   Gisela Michel   ⁸ , PhD ;   Nicolas Xavier von der Weid   ^{4, 7} , MD ;   Marc Ansari   ^{4, 9} , MD ;   Nicolas Waespe   ^{1, 4, 10 *} , MD, PhD ;   Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni   ^{1, 10 *} , MD

¹ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

² Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

³ Cancer Registry Bern Solothurn, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁴ CANSEARCH Research Platform in Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Department of Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

⁵ Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁶ Childhood Cancer Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland

⁷ Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB) and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

⁹ Division of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Department of Women, Child, and Adolescent, University Hospital of Geneva and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

¹⁰ Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally