Identification of conductive hearing loss using air conduction tests alone: Reliability and validity of an automatic test battery

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Convery, Elizabeth ^a,b   Keidser, Gitte ^a,b   Seeto, Mark ^a,b   Freeston, Katrina ^a,b   Zhou, Dan ^a,b   Dillon, Harvey ^a,b  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air bone gap; Automatic audiometry; Conductive hearing loss; In situ audiometry; Self fitting hearing aids

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED HEARING LOSS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, MIXED CONDUCTIVE-SENSORINEURAL; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891826218     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31829e058f     Document Type: Article

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