Hearing aids and cochlear damage: The case against fitting the pure tone audiogram

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 629-632

  Halpin, Chris ^a,b   Rauch, Steven D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 64749116394     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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