Defining Hearing Loss Severity Based on Pure Tone Audiometry and Self-Reported Perceived Hearing Difficulty, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Joseph Alexander de Gruy,
Christopher Spankovich,
Samuel Hopper
et al.
Abstract:Background: There is a well-known metric to describe average/normal vision, 20/20, but the same agreed upon standard does not exist for hearing. The pure tone average has been advocated for such a metric.
Purpose: We aimed to use a data driven approach to inform a universal metric for hearing status based on pure tone audiometry and perceived hearing difficulty (PHD).
Research Design: Cross-sectional national representative survey of the civilian non-institutionalized population in the United States.
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