Acceptance of a New Voice Prosthesis | 199 8 Results Patient characteristics Of the seventeen included patients, we had one immediate drop-out. After placement of the PVHP he changed his mind and did not feel comfortable with trying a new VP. During the short-term study one patient was diagnosed with metastatic disease after which he was excluded. This left us with fifteen patients for analysis (figure 3). All patient characteristics are shown in Table 1. The majority of the participants were male, participants had a mean age of 71 years at start of the study. Figure 3. Flow diagram of included patients and study progression
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