Preferred Method For Clinical Determination Of Pure-Tone Thresholds
- 1 November 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Vol. 24 (4) , 330-345
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshd.2404.330
Abstract
The Hughson-Westlake ascending method for establishing the pure-tone auditory threshold is recommended for general clinical use when audiometry is performed with a 5 db intensity interval. Experimental exploration with 36 normal hearing subjects yielded thresholds which were clinically equivalent to those obtained by similar short, tonal presentations patterned in descending, or threshold-crossing sequences. Adoption of the method is recommended over other methods for the sake of uniform clinical audiometry.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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