Clinical experience with the words-in-noise test on 3430 veterans: Comparisons with pure-tone thresholds and word recognition in quiet

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 405-423

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiogram; Hearing loss; Signal to noise ratio; Speech perception; Words speech in noise; Words speech in quiet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VETERAN; WORD RECOGNITION; WORDS IN NOISE TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TENNESSEE; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054710258     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.22.7.3     Document Type: Article

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