Benefit and quality of life after bone-anchored hearing aid fitting in children with unilateral or bilateral hearing impairment

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-138

  De Wolf, Maarten J F ^a   Hol, Myrthe K S ^a   Mylanus, Emmanuel A M ^a   Snik, Ad F M ^a   Cremers, Cor W R J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED PROFILE OF HEARING AID BENEFIT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DOWN SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; GLASGOW CHILDRENS BENEFIT INVENTORY; HEALTH UTILITIES INDEX MARK 3; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIXED HEARING LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, MIXED CONDUCTIVE-SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE ANCHORS;

EID: 79952013728     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.252     Document Type: Article

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