Can uHear me now? Validation of an iPod-based hearing loss screening test

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Szudek, Jacek ^a   Ostevik, Amberley ^a   Dziegielewski, Peter ^a   Robinson Anagor, Jason ^b   Gomaa, Nahla ^a   Hodgetts, Bill ^a   Ho, Allan ^a  

^a Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audiogram; Hearing loss; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTORRHEA; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY AND TOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; UHEAR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MP3-PLAYER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862563354     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2011.110089     Document Type: Article

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