Client preferences for compression threshold in single-channel wide dynamic range compression hearing aids

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-139

  Barker, Chris ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^b  

^a Australian Hearing   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS;

EID: 0032904846     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199904000-00004     Document Type: Article

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