The challenge of detecting minimal hearing loss in audiometric surveys

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-119

  Schlauch, Robert S ^a   Carney, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiograms; Audiometric zero; Health surveys; Pure tone air conduction thresholds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS;

EID: 84861553627     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(2012/11-0012)     Document Type: Review

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