Clinical Settings for Hearing Aids
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Clinical Reasons for Returning Hearing Aids
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Increases in older aged populations and exposure to complicated noise environments have increased the number of hearing-impaired patients, creating greater demands for hearing aids. We have assessed the reasons that individuals rejected wearing and returned properly prescribed hearing aids, as well as differences in individual factors between younger and elderly adults...
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عنوان ژورنال: Audiology and Speech Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1738-9399
DOI: 10.21848/asr.2016.12.s1.s27