Amplification in the rehabilitation of unilateral deafness: Speech in noise and directional hearing effects with bone-anchored hearing and contralateral routing of signal amplification

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-182

  Lin, Li Mei ^a   Bowditch, Stephen ^a   Anderson, Michael J ^a   May, Bradford ^a   Cox, Kenneth M ^a   Niparko, John K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory rehabilitation; Implantable hearing device; Sensorineural hearing loss; Unilateral monaural deafness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; MONAURAL HEARING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645079146     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000196421.30275.73     Document Type: Article

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