Low prevalence of hearing aid use among older adults with hearing loss: The epidemiology of hearing loss study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1075-1078

  Popelka, Michael M ^a,b   Cruickshanks, Karen J ^a   Wiley, Terry L ^a   Tweed, Theodore S ^a   Klein, Barbara E K ^a   Klein, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; TYMPANOMETRY; UNITED STATES; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031719204     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb06643.x     Document Type: Article

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