title: Procedure for clinical testing of hearing aids.
abstract: In 1996, the Danish audiological clinics and hearing aid manufacturers jointly developed a clinical procedure for testing novel hearing aids in a clinical setting. This endeavour cane about because it was being acknowledged that clinical testing of hearing aids was likely to become more prominent as a result of the more advanced signal processing schemes enabled by digital technology in particular. It was understood that future hearing aids would encompass a large variety of diverse features, and that a rigid and detailed test protocol would therefore be inappropriate. The procedure was therefore devised as a framework within which a test protocol can be developed, and constitutes the framework of good scientific and clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Audiological Department, Odense Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parving
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Lyregaard
mesh_terms: D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D017755:Prosthesis Fitting; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires