Self-test web-based pure-tone audiometry: Validity evaluation and measurement error analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Masalski, Marcin ^a,b   Krecicki, Tomasz ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computer assisted instruction; Pure tone audiometry; Self examination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELEMEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877333358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2222     Document Type: Article

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