Download or read book Validation of Automated Threshold Audiometry written by Faheema Mahomed and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for hearing health care services across the world far outweighs the capacity to deliver these services with the present shortage of hearing health care personnel. Automated test procedures coupled with telemedicine may assist in extending services. Automated threshold audiometry has existed for many decades: however, there has been a lack of systematic evidence supporting its clinical use. The aim of this study was to systematically review the current body of peer-reviewed publications on the validity (test-retest reliability and accuracy) of automated threshold audiometry. A meta-analysis was thereafter conducted to combine and quantify the results of individual reports so that an overall assessment of validity based on existing evidence could be made for automated threshold audiometry. A systematic literature review and meta-analysis was conducted using peerreviewed publications. A multifaceted approach, covering several databases and employing different search strategies, was utilized to ensure comprehensive coverage and crosschecking of search findings. Publications were obtained using the following three databases: Medline, SCOPUS and PubMed, and by inspecting the reference list of relevant reports. Reports were selected based according to inclusion and an exclusion criterion, thereafter data extraction was conducted. Subsequently, the meta-analysis combined and quantified data to determine the validity of automated threshold audiometry. In total, 29 articles met the inclusion criteria. The outcomes from these studies indicated that two types of automated threshold testing procedures have been utilized, the method of limits' and method of adjustments'. Reported findings suggest accurate and reliable thresholds when utilizing automated audiometry. Most of the reports included data on adult populations using air conduction testing, limited data on children, bone conduction testing and the effects of hearing status on automated threshold testing were however reported. The meta-analysis revealed that test-retest reliability for automated threshold audiometry was within typical testretest reliability for manual audiometry. Furthermore, the meta-analysis showed comparable overall average differences between manual and automated air conduction audiometry (0.4 dB, 6.1 SD) compared to test-retest differences for manual (1.3 dB, 6.1 SD) and automated (0.3 dB, 6.9 SD) air conduction audiometry. Overall, no significant differences (p>0.01: Summarized Data ANOVA) were obtained in any of the comparisons between test-retest reliability (manual and automated) and accuracy. Current evidence demonstrates that automated threshold audiometry can produce an accurate measure of hearing threshold. The differences between automated and manual audiometry fall within typical test-retest and inter-tester variability. Despite its long history however, validation is still limited for (i) automated bone conduction audiometry: (ii) automated audiometry in children and difficult-to-test populations and: (iii) automated audiometry with different types and degrees of hearing loss.

Download or read book Validity of Automated Threshold Audiometry written by Faheema Mahomed and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automated Smartphone Threshold Audiometry written by Jessica Jacqueline Van Tonder and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automated smartphone-based threshold audiometry has the potential to provide affordable audiometric services in underserved contexts where adequate resources and infrastructure are lacking. This study investigated the validity of the threshold version (hearTest) of the hearScreenTM smartphone-based application using inexpensive smartphones (Android OS) and calibrated supra-aural headphones. A repeated-measures, within-subject, study design was employed, comparing automated smartphone audiometry air conduction thresholds (0.5 to 8 kHz) to conventional audiometry thresholds. A total of 95 participants, with varying degrees of hearing sensitivity, were included in the study. 30 participants were adults, with known bilateral hearing losses of varying degrees (mean age of 59 years, 21.8 SD; 56.7% female). 65 participants were adolescents (mean age of 16.5 years, 1.2 SD; 70.8% female), of which 61 had normal hearing and 4 had mild hearing losses. Within the adult sample, 70.6% of thresholds obtained through smartphone and conventional audiometry corresponded within 5 dB. There was no significant difference between smartphone (6.75 min average, 1.5 SD) and conventional audiometry test duration (6.65 min average, 2.5 SD). Within the adolescent sample, 84.7% of audiometry thresholds obtained at 0.5, 2 and 4 kHz corresponded within 5 dB. At 1 kHz 79.3% of the thresholds differed by 10 dB or less. There was a significant difference (p

Download or read book A Study of the Reliability and Validity of Bone Conduction Audiometry written by Robert Ernest Roach and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Validity and Reliability of B k sy Audiometry with Preschool Age Children written by Francis Harold Tokay and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearing Loss written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.

Download or read book The Validity of Objective Speech Audiometry as a Method for Determining the Auditory Threshold written by Clifford I. Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of Rehabilitation R D written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preventive audiology written by Katijah Khoza-Shangase and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology, with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re-engineered primary healthcare strategy as well as the World Health Organisation’s approach. The book reflects on contextually relevant and responsive evidence-based perspectives, grounded in an African context on preventive audiology, in four major ear and hearing burdens of disease within the South African context: (1) early hearing detection and intervention, (2) middle ear pathologies, (3) ototoxicity, and (4) noise-induced hearing loss. The book represents innovative research, seen from both a South African and global perspective. It offers new discourse and argues for a paradigm shift in how audiology is theorised and performed, particularly in low-and-middle-income country contexts. The goal of this book is to motivate a paradigm shift in how the ear and hearing care is approached within this low-and-middle-income country context while arguing for Afrocentric best practice evidence that leads to next practice.

Download or read book Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of Rehabilitation Research Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Telepractice in Audiology written by Emma Rushbrooke and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telepractice in Audiology provides practical information to audiologists to enable the development and delivery of a successful telepractice program. Specifically, the text discusses the technological requirements (e.g., videoconferencing equipment, remote programming software options, Internet connections, etc.), applications and models of service delivery in audiology, policy and regulatory issues, as well as future directions in the field. The use of telepractice technology, specifically the Internet and remote programming software, has the potential to improve equity of access to services and reduce the burden placed on families. Program reports, outcomes, and publications that are emerging demonstrate the ability to offer sophisticated audiological assessments with reliable outcomes. This text provides the knowledge and skills required to implement a telepractice program that could provide a range of audiological services from diagnostics to intervention and habilitation/rehabilitation. Further, different models of service delivery are presented, thus demonstrating the flexibility of a telepractice approach. Telepractice in Audiology is a useful resource for practicing clinicians as well as students training to be audiologists. In addition, teachers of the deaf, speech-language pathologists, IT support persons, and other individuals interested in the application of, or endeavoring to implement, teleaudiology programs will also benefit from this text.

Download or read book Some Aspects of Methodology in Speech Audiometry written by Björn Hagerman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual of Practical Audiometry written by Stig Arlinger and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Developments in Audiology written by James Jerger and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Otolaryngology An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America written by Anais Rameau and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Anais Rameau and Matthew G. Crowson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Otolaryngology. Top experts in the field cover timely topics in the areas of Best Practices, AI Modalities, Implementation and Governance, and Subspecialty AI. Contains 17 relevant, practice-oriented topics including clinical data/machine learning; generative AI and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery; ethics; AI in otology and neurotology; AI in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery; AI in pediatric otolaryngology; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on artificial intelligence in otolaryngology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Download or read book Digital Hearing Healthcare written by Qinglin Meng and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We would like to acknowledge VCCA2020-Organizer Jan-Willem Wasmann, who has acted as coordinator and has contributed to the preparation of the proposal for this Research Topic. Dr. Qinglin Meng is working on an audio project for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Dr. Jing Chen is working on research projects with Sonova AG. Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng owns stock in Axonics, Nurotron, Syntiant, Velox and Xsense. Dr. Dennis Barbour founded and owns equity in Bonauria. All other Topic Editor declare no conflicts of interest.