Hearing status among commercial pilots in a Swedish Airline Company

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 515-519

  Lindgren, Torsten ^a,c   Wieslander, Gunilla ^a   Dammstrom, Bo Goran ^b   Norback, Dan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aerospace medicine; Aircraft Pilots; Hearing impairment; Hearing thresholds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SWEDEN; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SWEDEN;

EID: 49549091365     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802064633     Document Type: Article

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