Calibrated finger rub auditory screening test (CALFRAST)

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1595-1600

  Torres Russotto, D ^a,b   Landau, W M ^a   Harding, G W ^a   Bohne, B A ^a   Sun, K ^a   Sinatra, P M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CALIBRATED FINGER RUB AUDITORY SCREENING TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FINGER; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649410670     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181a41280     Document Type: Article

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