Hearing and quality of life in a south European BAHA population

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1040-1047

  Barbara, Maurizio ^a   Biagini, Michela ^a   Lazzarino, Antonio Ivan ^b   Monini, Simonetta ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BAHA surgery; Bone anchored hearing aids; Conductive hearing loss; Speech audiometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956040596     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016481003591756     Document Type: Article

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