Automated smartphone threshold audiometry: Validity and time efficiency

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 200-208

  Van Tonder, Jessica ^a   Swanepoel, De Wet ^a,b,c   Mahomed Asmail, Faheema ^a   Myburgh, Hermanus ^c   Eikelboom, Robert H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Ear Science Institute Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air conduction; Automated audiometry; Diagnostic audiometry; MHealth; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; BILATERAL HEARING LOSS; BONE CONDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; FEMALE; GENERAL DEVICE; HEADPHONE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD HEARING LOSS; MOBILE APPLICATION; PHOTOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SMARTPHONE; TIME; AUDIOMETRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMARTPHONE; TELEMEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014512162     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: 21573107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16002     Document Type: Article

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