The Design of a Project to Assess Bilateral Versus Unilateral Hearing Aid Fitting

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-144

  Arlinger, Stig ^a   Gatehouse, Stuart ^b   Kiessling, Jürgen ^c   Naylor, Graham ^d   Verschuure, Hans ^e   Wouters, Jan ^f  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^e ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bilateral fitting; hearing aids; randomized cross over design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 45749123459     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713808316171     Document Type: Article

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