title: Auditory brainstem response (ABR) to tone-pips: results in normal and hearing-impaired subjects.
abstract: We evaluated predictive accuracy of the auditory brainstem response (ABR) to tone-pip and click signals in normal and hearing-impaired subjects. Prediction of hearing sensitivity based on threshold of the ABR to tone-pips of 500 and 2 000 Hz to clicks was compared to the behavioral results obtained by conventional pure-tone audiometry. Results showed that error in prediction was greatest for the 500 Hz tone-pip and least for the click. In addition, predictive error for the 500 Hz tone-pip varied with the contour of the pure-tone audiogram. In general, greatest predictive error was observed in subjects with steeply sloping audiograms.
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry / Q000379:methods*; D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response / Q000379:methods*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male