Rate of false-positive results for threshold shifts during initial treatment with aminoglycosides

ORL

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 105-110

  Schmuziger, Nicolas ^a,b   Gürtler, Nicolas ^a   Jungi, Manuel ^a   Gratwohl, Alois ^a   Probst, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HNO Universitatsklinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aminoglycosides; Criteria for threshold shift; False positive results; Ototoxicity

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD SHIFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4444349746     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079328     Document Type: Article

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