Functionally-based screening criteria for hearing-critical jobs based on the hearing in noise test

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 319-328

  Giguère, Christian ^a   Laroche, Chantal ^a   Soli, Sigfrid D ^b   Vaillancourt, Veronique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional hearing ability; Hearing in Noise Test; Hearing critical jobs; Job criteria; Noise and communication; Speech intelligibility; Task performance; Workplace noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY SCREENING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; JOB PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; WORKPLACE;

EID: 47349107428     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020801894824     Document Type: Article

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