Long-term cost effectiveness of screening strategies for hearing loss
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Long-term cost-effectiveness of screening strategies for hearing loss.
Routine hearing screening can identify patients who are motivated to seek out and adhere to treatment, but little information exists on the cost-effectiveness of hearing screening in a general population of older veterans. We compared the cost-effectiveness of three screening strategies (tone-emitting otoscope, hearing handicap questionnaire, and both together) against no screening (control gro...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0748-7711
DOI: 10.1682/jrrd.2010.03.0041