Slight-mild sensorineural hearing loss in children: Audiometric, clinical, and risk factor profiles

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-212

  Cone, Barbara K ^a   Wake, Melissa ^b   Tobin, Sherryn ^c   Poulakis, Zeffie ^b   Rickards, Field W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NOISE; PARENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFECTION; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; NOISE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PARENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77949373140     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181c62263     Document Type: Article

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