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Improving the Efficiency of the Digits-in-Noise Hearing Screening Test: A Comparison Between Four Different Test Procedures.

Tasneem DambhaDe Wet SwanapoelFaheema Mahomed-AsmailKarina C De SousaMarien Alet GrahamCas Smits
Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR (2021)
The DF and DC8 procedures had significantly lower test durations than the reference D23 and show potential to be more time-efficient screening tools to determine normal hearing or potential hearing loss. Further studies are needed to optimize the DC8 procedure. The reference D23 remains the most reliable and accurate DIN hearing screening test, but studies in which the potentially efficient new DIN procedures are compared to pure-tone thresholds are needed to validate these procedures.
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