Effect of daily noise exposure monitoring on annual rates of hearing loss in industrial workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 414-418

  Rabinowitz, Peter M ^a   Galusha, Deron ^a   Kirsche, Sharon R ^a   Cullen, Mark R ^b   Slade, Martin D ^a   Dixon Ernst, Christine ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALCOA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEARING; HEARING CONSERVATION PROGRAM; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS; PERSONAL MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SMELTER;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 79955973729     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.055905     Document Type: Article

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