Short-term and long-term hearing aid benefit and user satisfaction: A comparison between two fitting protocols

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 482-495

  Shi, Lu Feng ^a,b   Doherty, Karen A ^a   Kordas, Tammy M ^a   Pellegrino, Joseph T ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit; Fitting protocol; Hearing aids; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34848927451     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.6.3     Document Type: Article

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