Personal Sound Amplifiers for Adults with Hearing Loss

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 245-250

  Mamo, Sara K ^a,b   Reed, Nicholas S ^a,b   Nieman, Carrie L ^a,b   Oh, Esther S ^a,c   Lin, Frank R ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related hearing loss; Amplification; Audiology; Hearing AIDS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDIOLOGY; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTIZING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; VOICE AMPLIFICATION DEVICE; AGED; AGING; AMPLIFIER; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING LOSS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS;

EID: 84958044452     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.09.014     Document Type: Review

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