Smartphone-based audiometric test for screening hearing loss in the elderly

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 333-339

  Abu Ghanem, Sara ^a   Handzel, Ophir ^a   Ness, Lior ^a   Ben Artzi Blima, Miri ^b   Fait Ghelbendorf, Karin ^b   Himmelfarb, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Elderly; Hearing loss; Mobile applications; Screening

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARPHONE CUSHION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SMARTPHONE; SOUND LEVEL METER; VERY ELDERLY; DEAFNESS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING LOSS; MASS SCREENING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; DEAFNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMARTPHONE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84956687521     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-015-3533-9     Document Type: Article

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