Hearing Evaluation

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Indications 3 Procedure 4 Notes 5 More General Terms 6 Additional Terms 7 References

More Specific Terms

• audiometry
• electrocochleography
• Hearing Handicap Inventory in the Elderly-Screening Version (HHIE-S)
• Lombard test
• Rinne test
• Schwabach test
• sensorineural acuity level test
• staggered spondaic word test
• Stenger test
• synthetic sentence identification test
• Weber test
• whisper test

Indications

• hearing loss

Procedure

• testing conducted to estimate a patient's hearing sensitivity, auditory system integrity, & auditory function
• various tests are used, depending on the age of the patient & the need to define characteristics of any hearing loss.
• audiometry is the gold standard
  
• bedside hearing tests: (sensitivity/ specificity)

• finger rub 6 inches from ear (35%/97%)
• watch tick 6 inches from ear (60%/99%)
• whispered speech 2 feet from ear (46%/78%)
• Rinne test (-/100%)
• Weber test (5-21&/74-83%)
• Do you think you have hearing difficulty? (27%/89%)

• Hearing Handicap Inventory in the Elderly is the most reliable screening tool [2]

Notes

• Medicare offers a one-time preventive hearing evaluation [2]

More General Terms

• clinical procedure

Additional Terms

• audioscope
• hearing aid
• hearing loss (hearing impairment, hard of hearing, HOH)
• hearing; audition

References

1. Boatman DF et al, How accurate are bedside hearing tests? Neurology 2007, 68:1311 PMID: [1]
2. Geriatric Review Syllabus, 7th edition Parada JT et al (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2010

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