Directionality in the interpretation of clinical auditory brain stem response measures.
Clinical auditory brain stem response latency measures are conventionally evaluated for abnormality by reference to normative laboratory values in standard deviation units. This note suggests that the directionality of the test hypothesis should be considered when the clinical ABR is evaluated for abnormality at a predetermined level of confidence.
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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
D001933:Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans