Test-retest reliability of the acoustic stapedial reflex test in healthy neonates

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-301

  Mazlan, Rafidah ^a   Kei, Joseph ^a   Hickson, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ACOUSTIC STAPEDIAL REFLEX TEST; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BABY; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCREENING; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAPEDIUS;

EID: 69049116185     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31819c3ea0     Document Type: Article

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