Audiometry Screening and Interpretation

January 1, 2013 Volume 87, Number 1 American Family Physician 41 Audiometry Screening and InterpretationJENNIFER JUNNILA WALKER, MD, MPH, Army Health Clinic, Schofield Barracks, HawaiiLEANNE M. CLEVELAND, AuD, Fort Richardson Troop Health Clinic, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, AlaskaJENNY L. DAVIS, AuD, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, GermanyJENNIFER S. SEALES, AuD, General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri Nearly 30 million American adults have some degree of hearing The prevalence of hearing loss varies with age; at least 25 percent of patients between 51 and 65 years of age, and more than 50 percent of patients older than 80 years, have objective evidence of hearing ,3 Particularly con-cerning is the increasing prevalence of hear-ing loss in adolescents and young adults, which affects between 8 and 19 percent of this ,4 The Preventive Ser-vices Task Force (USPSTF) finds insufficient evidence for or against Screening for hear-ing loss in asymptomatic adults 50 years or However, the USPSTF does affirm the effectiveness of Screening question-naires and clinical techniques such as the whispered voice, finger rub, and watch tick tests, all of which can be performed in the primary care ,5,6 Other guidelines list subjective hearing Screening as a prev

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