A comparison of the benefit provided by well-fit linear hearing aids and instruments with automatic reductions of low-frequency gain

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 666-685

  Humes, Larry E ^a   Christensen, Laurel A ^b   Bess, Fred H ^c   Hedley Williams, Andrea ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit; BILL processing; Hearing aids; Linear processing; Speech understanding in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030750654     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4003.666     Document Type: Article

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