Comparing cochlear implant users' speech performance with processor fittings based on conventionally determined T and C levels or on compound action potential thresholds and live-voice speech in a prospective balanced crossover study

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 789-798

  Willeboer, Christina ^a   Smoorenburg, Guido F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750605794     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000240811.67906.55     Document Type: Article

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