The Hearing Scale Test for hearing screening of school-age children

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 760-764

  Liao, Wen Huei ^a,b   Lien, Chiang Feng ^b   Young, Shuenn Tsong ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hearing scale test; Hearing screening; Pure tone screening; School age children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING SCALE TEST; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEARING DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79952028487     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: 18728464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2010.03.033     Document Type: Article

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