Brainstem evoked auditory potentials in tinnitus : a best-evidence 2 synthesis and meta-analysis 3 4 Short title : Meta-analysis of brainstem evoked auditory potentials in tinnitus 5 6

6 Laura Jacxsens 1,2*, Joke De Pauw 1, Emilie Cardon 2,3, Annemarie van der Wal 1,4, Laure Jacquemin 2,3, 7 Annick Gilles 2,3,5, Sarah Michiels 2,6, Vincent Van Rompaey 2,3, Marc J.W. Lammers 2,3, Willem De 8 Hertogh 1 9 10 * Corresponding author: 11 Email: laura.jacxsens@uantwerpen.be 12 13 1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, 14 Antwerp, Belgium 15 2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), Edegem, Belgium 16 3 Department of Translational Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp (UA), Antwerp, 17 Belgium 18 4 Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of 19 Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 20 5 Department of Education, Health and Social Work, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium 21 6 Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, REVAL, University of Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a perpetuity. is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint The copyright holder for this this version posted January 30, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.29.22270068 doi: medRxiv preprint