Factors affecting reliability and validity of self-directed automatic in situ audiometry: Implications for self-fitting hearing aids

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-18

  Convery, Elizabeth ^a,b   Keidser, Gitte ^a   Seeto, Mark ^a   Yeend, Ingrid ^a   Freeston, Katrina ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic audiometry; Hearing aids; In situ audiometry; Self fitting hearing aids

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AUDIOLOGIST; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; HEARING LOSS; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84920997174     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.26.1.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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