Comparison of pure-tone audiometry analysis in sudden hearing loss studies: Lack of agreement for different outcome measures

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 753-763

  Plontke, Stefan K ^a,b   Bauer, Michael ^a   Meisner, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical study design; Data analysis; Evidence based medicine; Pure tone audiogram; Randomized controlled trials; Sudden hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548251042     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31811515ae     Document Type: Article

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