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Hearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearing.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cochlear Implant Referrals in Adults With Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss in the United Kingdom (CIRCA-2): Protocol for a Repeat National Multicenter Retrospective Observational Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- "It gives me confidence and value": evaluating All_Ears@UoS patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) group three years on.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Article
- Assessing hearing health inequalities using routine health information systems.Journal of public health policy · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Perceptions of Hearing Health and Protection among Florida Firefighters.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Regional patterns and trends of hearing loss in England: evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing (ELSA) and implications for health policy.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
The 1011-page book, Hearing in Adults, published in 1995, contains the fullest report of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council National Study of Hearing. It was designed to determine the prevalence and distribution in Great Britain of audiometrically measured hearing loss as a function of age, gender, occupation, and noise exposure. The study’s size, quality, and breadth made it unique when it was done in the 1980s. These qualities remain, and its data are still the primary U.K. source for the prevalence of auditory problems. However, only 550 copies were printed, and the book is essentially unobtainable today. We describe here a fully searchable, open-access, digital (PDF) “reprinting” of Hearing in Adults, summarizing the study’s design and the book’s contents, together with a brief commentary in the light of subsequent developments.
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