PMID: 9428029Jan 1, 1997Paper

Bilateral threshold frequency weighting in hearing disability predictions

Scandinavian Audiology
P CorthalsP Van Cauwenberge

Abstract

Hearing disability can be measured by questionnaires, interviews or self-ratings. As these measurement techniques are not always appropriate for direct application in individual cases, particularly in the context of compensation claims, the assessment is sometimes reduced to a surrogate measure derived from audiometric thresholds. No final agreement emerges from correlation studies on hearing disability as to the optimal set of audiometric descriptors. However, a multiple regression equation, describing the relationship between audiometric data and numerically expressed self-ratings of disability, provides a means for predicting disability with relatively good precision, using some index derivable from the audiogram. The aim of the present study was to consolidate or amend current prediction schemes based on tonal audiometric data by investigating the problem of differential bilateral weighting of threshold frequency through multiple regression performed on experimental data coming from an unbiased group of hearing impaired subjects. In addition to tonal thresholds, this corpus included simple, quantitative self-ratings for disability. The sample was considered to be a representative cross-section of adult hearing impaired ENT ...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1997·Audiology : Official Organ of the International Society of Audiology·P CorthalsP Van Cauwenberge

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Mar 29, 2005·Otology & Neurotology : Official Publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology·Katrien VermeirePaul H Van de Heyning
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