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Guidelines, organisations & research

11 headwords: 11 articles, 0 entries, 0 definitions

This category covers the sources behind the rest of the site: clinical practice guidelines and what they recommend, the organisations that publish guidance or fund research, the tools for reading a study critically, and the research still under way, including clinical trials and how to take part in one.

Guidelines written in different countries do not always agree, and the pages say where they differ as well as where they overlap. The research pages explain the common ways a weak result can be made to look strong, which is worth knowing when reading any claim about tinnitus, including the ones in this encyclopedia.

To see what the guidelines say side by side, start with the comparison below; to check a study yourself, start with the page on reading one; to look for a trial to join, start with the trials page. The headwords are listed A to Z, each marked as a full article, a shorter entry or a glossary definition.

Every headword, A to Z

  • AAO-HNS tinnitus guideline (2014)Article

    The 2014 AAO-HNS tinnitus guideline, statement by statement: what it recommends, what it rules out, how strongly, and what newer evidence has done to each.

  • AI and machine learning in tinnitus careArticle

    Machine learning models report 86% to 94% accuracy at telling tinnitus from no tinnitus. What those lab figures mean, and why none is a clinical test yet.

  • Checking a treatment yourselfArticle

    No article here on cupping, reflexology or reiki, because there is nothing to report. The search that shows it, and how to run it on anything.

  • Emerging treatmentsArticle

    New tinnitus treatments in 2026: which drugs and devices are in trials, which have reported results, and why no drug is approved for tinnitus yet.

  • Joining a clinical trialArticle

    How to find a tinnitus clinical trial on ClinicalTrials.gov, contact the study team, get through screening, and what to ask about placebo, payment and risk.

  • NICE tinnitus guideline (NG155)Article

    The UK's 2020 NICE tinnitus guideline, recommendation by recommendation: what it firmly backs, what it rules out, and where it found no evidence at all.

  • Notable tinnitus studiesArticle

    A dated log of the tinnitus studies worth knowing about, newest first: what each one found, how much weight it can bear, and where to read more.

  • Reading a tinnitus studyArticle

    Nine ways a tinnitus study can produce an impressive number without establishing anything — each one with a real, cited example from this site, so you can check the pattern against a case rather than take it on trust.

  • Tinnitus guidelinesArticle

    Seven tinnitus guidelines from the US, UK, Europe, Germany, Japan and Korea agree on CBT and hearing aids, and split on sound therapy, rTMS and ginkgo.

  • VA/DoD tinnitus guideline (2024)Article

    The newest major tinnitus guideline makes 25 recommendations and not one of them is strong. Here is every one, what it says, and why the weakness is the finding.

  • Wait-list improvementArticle

    People put on a wait-list and given no treatment at all improve by 3–8% on tinnitus measures in 6 to 12 weeks. That figure is why a study without a control group cannot tell you anything.

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