Effectiveness of a teleaudiology approach to hearing aid fitting

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 474-478

  Blamey, Peter J ^a,b,c   Blamey, Jeremy K ^b   Saunders, Elaine ^b,d  

^a BIONICS INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Blamey and Saunders Hearing Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

hearing aid fitting; Teleaudiology

Indexed keywords

AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHETIC FITTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STANDARDS; TELEMEDICINE;

AUDIOLOGY; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84946897465     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: 17581109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357633X15611568     Document Type: Article

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