Identification of Conductive Hearing Loss Using Air Conduction Tests Alone: Reliability and Validity of an Automatic Test Battery
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2014-01Author
Convery, Elizabeth
Keidser, Gitte
Seeto, Mark
Freeston, Katrina
Zhou, Dan
Zhou, Dan
Zhou, Dan
Dillon, Harvey
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The primary objective of this study was to determine whether
a combination of automatically administered pure-tone audiometry and
a tone-in-noise detection task, both delivered via an air conduction (AC)
pathway, could reliably and validly predict the presence of a conductive
component to the hearing loss. The authors hypothesized that performance
on the battery of tests would vary according to hearing loss type.
A secondary objective was to evaluate the reliability and validity of a
novel automatic audiometry algorithm to assess its suitability for inclusion
in the test battery.