Hearing disability measured by the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale in clinically normal-hearing and hearing-impaired middle-aged persons, and disability screening by means of a reduced SSQ (the SSQ5)

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 615-626

  Demeester, Kelly ^a   Topsakal, Vedat ^a,b   Hendrickx, Jan Jaap ^a   Fransen, Erik ^c   Van Laer, Lut ^c   Van Camp, Guy ^c   Van De Heyning, Paul ^a   Van Wieringen, Astrid ^d  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865803515     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31824e0ba7     Document Type: Article

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