Fitting strategies and candidature criteria for unilateral and bilateral hearing aid fittings

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Kiessling, Jürgen ^a   Müller, Michael ^a   Latzel, Matthias ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Bilateral; Candidature criteria; Fine tuning; Fitting; Hearing aids; Meta controller; Unilateral

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOICE;

HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33748666211     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020600782808     Document Type: Article

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