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Hearing Loss in the Elderly

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Abstract

In many elderly patients pure tone audiometry has proved to be unreliable in hearing assessment. In Section 2, for instance it was shown that only 159 patients in a large geriatric unit out of a total of 215 initially tested by audiometry gave similar audiometric results on retesting. The other 56 (26%) gave audiometric results which were significantly different because of their inability, at this advanced age, to concentrate and co-operate adequately in the test.

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  1. Ear, Nose and Throat Department, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK

    Sava Soucek MD, PhD (Consultant in Audiological Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Audiological Medicine)

  2. Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

    Sava Soucek MD, PhD (Consultant in Audiological Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Audiological Medicine)

  3. St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (University of London), UK

    Sava Soucek MD, PhD (Consultant in Audiological Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Audiological Medicine)

  4. Department of Histopathology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine (University of London), UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), FCAP, D.Path (Professor of Pathology and Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  5. Institute of Laryngology and Otology, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), FCAP, D.Path (Professor of Pathology and Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  6. Bloomsbury Health Authority, London, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), FCAP, D.Path (Professor of Pathology and Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

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Soucek, S., Michaels, L. (1990). Electrophysiology. In: Hearing Loss in the Elderly. The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1805-3_3

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