Validity of audiometric screening tests-fact or fiction

Authors

  • J. Gauthier Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, Que., Canada

Keywords:

biomedical measurement, hearing, patient diagnosis, audiometric screening tests, hearing thresholds, industrial workers, valid audiometric tests, noise-induced hearing loss

Abstract

An analysis of the validity of audiometric screening tests has been performed by a repeated measures analysis of variance (MANOVA) on hearing thresholds measured in a screening context, and the corresponding thresholds obtained by clinical tests among the same industrial workers. The results support the feasibility of valid audiometric tests in the context of screening for noise-induced hearing loss. However, they also demonstrate the importance of strict control of all potential sources of variation to obtain valid thresholds. The method used in this study is easy to set up and particularly sensitive to systematic sources of variation; therefore it could be integrated into the procedures applied by audiologists supervising auditory screening

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Published

1995-12-01

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1.
Gauthier J. Validity of audiometric screening tests-fact or fiction. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 1995 Dec. 1 [cited 2025 Feb. 21];23(4):3-14. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/973

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 4 (1995)

Section

Technical Articles

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