Clinical Validity of hearScreen™ Smartphone Hearing Screening for School Children

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages e11-e17

  Mahomed Asmail, Faheema ^a   Swanepoel, De Wet ^a,b,c   Eikelboom, Robert H ^a,b,c   Myburgh, Hermanus C ^a   Hall, James ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Ear Science Institute Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d SALUS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Childhood hearing loss; Developing countries; hearScreen ; Mobile device; School screening; Semiautomated; Sensitivity; Smartphone hearing screening application; Specificity; Validity

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DEVICES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROCEDURES; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMARTPHONE;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 84952862814     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000223     Document Type: Article

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