A Clinical Trial of the ReSound BT2 Personal Hearing System

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 85-97

  Walden, Brian E ^a   Surr, Rauna K ^a   Cord, Mary T ^a   Pavlovic, Chaslav V ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ReSound Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials protocol; Hearing aid benefit; ReSound BT2 Personal Hearing System

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003103365     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(1998/017)     Document Type: Article

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