Dichotic Hearing in Elderly Hearing Aid Users Who Choose to Use a Single-Ear Device
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Dichotic Hearing in Elderly Hearing Aid Users Who Choose to Use a Single-Ear Device
Introduction Elderly individuals with bilateral hearing loss often do not use hearing aids in both ears. Because of this, dichotic tests to assess hearing in this group may help identify peculiar degenerative processes of aging and hearing aid selection. Objective To evaluate dichotic hearing for a group of elderly hearing aid users who did not adapt to using binaural devices and to verify the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1809-9777,1809-4864
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1372508