Behavioral audiometry: Validity of audiometric measurements obtained using the "Delaroche protocol" in babies aged 4-18 months suffering from bilateral sensorineural hearing loss

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 993-1002

  Delaroche, Monique ^a   Thiébaut, Rodolphe ^b   Dauman, René ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem responses (ABR); Awareness; Behavioral audiometry (BA); Bone and air conduction; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPPA STATISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33646091093     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2005.10.010     Document Type: Article

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