Comparison of speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise after hearing aid fitting according to a purely prescriptive and a comparative fitting procedure

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 265, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1113-1120

  Metselaar, Mick ^a   Maat, Bert ^b   Krijnen, Pieta ^a   Verschuure, Hans ^a   Dreschler, Wouter ^b   Feenstra, Louw ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fitting hearing aids; Hearing impairment; Speech intelligibility; Speech in noise test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 48349118204     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-008-0596-x     Document Type: Article

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