Implications of high-frequency cochlear dead regions for fitting hearing aids to adults with mild to moderately severe hearing loss

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 573-587

  Cox, Robyn M ^a   Johnson, Jani A ^a   Alexander, Genevieve C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b 2James H Quillen VAMC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCHLEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PROSTHESIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865732845     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31824d8ef3     Document Type: Article

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