Test-Retest Reliability of Pure-Tone Thresholds from 0.5 to 16 kHz using Sennheiser HDA 200 and Etymotic Research ER-2 Earphones

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-132

  Schmuziger, Nicolas ^a,c   Probst, Rudolf ^a   Smurzynski, Jacek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Otorhinolaryngology ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOTOXICITY; RELIABILITY; TRANSDUCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALIBRATION; CHILD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 1842507432     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AUD.0000120361.87401.C8     Document Type: Article

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