Client-based adjustments of hearing aid gain: The effect of different control configurations

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-227

  Dreschler, Wouter A ^a,c   Keidser, Gitte ^b   Convery, Elizabeth ^b   Dillon, Harvey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARAMETER; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 43149084814     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31816453a6     Document Type: Article

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