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Table 8 Percentage of patients reported to have been diagnosed as having tinnitus by another specialist before reaching the respondent ('pre-diagnosed'), diagnosed by the physician themselves ('Self') or needing to be referred on for diagnosis ('Referred on').

From: Treatment options for subjective tinnitus: Self reports from a sample of general practitioners and ENT physicians within Europe and the USA

 

GP profession

ENT profession

Country

Pre-diagnosed [%]

Self

[%]

Referred on

[%]

Pre-diagnosed [%]

Self [%]

Referred on [%]

US

13

62

25

24

71

5

UK

14

63

23

31

63

6

Germany

20

37

43

23

68

9

France

15

66

18

35

61

4

Spain

14

59

26

22

74

4

Italy

11

54

35

28

63

10

  1. Data are split by each country, and reported separately for each professional group. Again, only data for those physicians who saw at least one tinnitus patient in the past three months are reported.