Navy Hearing Conservation Program: 1995-1999 Retrospective Analysis of Threshold Shifts for Age, Sex, and Officer/Enlisted Status

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-76

  Bohnker, Bruce K ^a   Page, John C ^a   Rovig, Glen W ^a   Betts, Lawrence S ^a   Sack, David M ^a  

^a Navy Environmental Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NAVY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 1642539979     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.1.73     Document Type: Article

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