Audiologist-Driven Versus Patient-Driven Fine Tuning of Hearing Instruments

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-58

  Boymans, Monique ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aided speech intelligibility; amplification; hearing aid fitting; listening comfort

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALIBRATION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84861809027     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713811424884     Document Type: Article

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