Tools for Tinnitus measurement: Development and validity of questionnaires to assess handicap and treatment effects

Tinnitus: Causes, Treatment and Short & Long-Term Health Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 13-60

  Fackrell, Kathryn ^a   Hall, Deborah A ^a   Barry, Johanna ^b   Hoare, Derek J ^a  

^a NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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