Assessing hearing loss in older adults with a single question and person characteristics; Comparison with pure tone audiometry in the Rotterdam Study.
Berthe C OosterlooNienke C HomansRob J Baatenburg de JongM Arfan IkramAndries Paul NagtegaalAndré GoedegeburePublished in: PloS one (2020)
Self-reported hearing loss using a single question has a good ability to detect hearing loss in older adults, especially when age is accounted for. A single question cannot substitute audiometry, but it can assess hearing loss on a population level with reasonable accuracy.