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Preoperative and postoperative earphone, unaided\/aided\/implanted pure\u2010tone thresholds, and word recognition scores were evaluated.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Ninety\u2010one subjects were included in this study. Mean word recognition was better with MEIs than with HAs (81.8%\u2009\u00b1\u200912.0% vs. 77.6%\u2009\u00b1\u200914.6%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.035). Word recognition with MEIs showed a low positive correlation with word recognition measured with earphones (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.25, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.016) and a moderate positive correlation with aided word recognition (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.42, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Earphone word recognition alone was not predictive of MEI benefit over HA benefit (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.09, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.41), unlike differences between scores with earphone and HAs (earphone\u2010aided differences [EAD]) (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.62, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.011). As compared to those with \u2013EADs, subjects with +EADs showed greater improvement in word recognition from unaided to implanted and from HAs to implanted (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.0001). Using the 95% CI for word recognition scores, 16 subjects showed significantly higher scores with the MEI than with HAs. 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