Optimal hearing aid use: Focus groups with hearing aid clients and audiologists

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 193-202

  Laplante Lévesque, Ariane ^a,b   Jensen, Lisbeth Dons ^a   Dawes, Piers ^c   Nielsen, Claus ^a  

^a Eriksholm Research Centre   (Denmark)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOLOGY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875214335     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31826a8ecd     Document Type: Article

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