Application-Based Hearing Screening in the Elderly Population

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 36-41

  Livshitz, Leonid ^a   Ghanayim, Reem ^a   Kraus, Carmi ^a   Farah, Raymond ^a,b   Even Tov, Ella ^a,b   Avraham, Yaniv ^a   Sharabi Nov, Adi ^c   Gilbey, Peter ^a  

^a Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

elderly; hearing loss; hearing testing; screening audiometry; tablet audiometry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; AGING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 85002273535     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003489416672873     Document Type: Article

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