Personal sound amplification products vs a conventional hearing aid for speech understanding in noise

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 318, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 89-90

  Reed, Nicholas S ^a   Betz, Joshua ^b   Kendig, Nicole ^c   Korczak, Margaret ^c   Lin, Frank R ^a  

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

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

^c TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; PERSONAL SOUND AMPLIFICATION PRODUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING LOSS; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 85021805618     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.6905     Document Type: Letter

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