Hearing in hospitalised geriatric patients. A descriptive study.
A descriptive audiometric study was performed on 394 patients hospitalised in the geriatric department of our hospital. The mean age of these patients was 82 years. No significant correlation could be found between hearing thresholds and age of the patients. Eighty-six percent of our patients had a socially handicapping hearing loss.
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Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital St Rafael, KUL, Leuven, Belgium.
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Feenstra
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests