Four earplugs in search of a rating system

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 218-226

  Franks, John R ^a   Murphy, William J ^a   Johnson, Jennifer L ^b   Harris, Dave A ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b USA MEDDAC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0033945571     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-200006000-00005     Document Type: Article

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