Fitting hearing aids using clinical prefitting speech measures: An evidence-based review

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 439-447

  Killion, Mead C ^a   Gudmundsen, Gail I ^a  

^a Etymotic Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based review; Hearing aids; Self reported satisfaction; Speech discrimination; Systematic review; Word recognition scores

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEARING AID; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY; HEARING LOSS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTHESIS FITTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644790381     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16.7.4     Document Type: Review

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