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ArticleActa otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale2020

Are smartphone applications (App) useful to improve hearing?

Paz Martinez-Beneyto, Sebastiano Franchella, Fabio Alonso Rodriguez, Rafael Navarro-Velasquez, Miguel A Martinez-Beneito, Alessandro Martini, Jaime Marco Algarra

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Article in Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Paz Martinez-BeneytoServicio de Otorrinolaringologia, Hospital Clinico-Universitario, Valencia, Spain.
Sebastiano FranchellaOtorinolaringoiatria, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze DNS, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
Fabio Alonso RodriguezServicio de Otorrinolaringologia, Hospital Clinico-Universitario, Valencia, Spain.
Rafael Navarro-VelasquezServicio de Otorrinolaringologia, Hospital Clinico-Universitario, Valencia, Spain.
Miguel A Martinez-BeneitoFISABIO, Fundacion para el fomento de la investigacion sanitaria y biomedica de la Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain.
Alessandro MartiniOtorinolaringoiatria, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze DNS, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
Jaime Marco AlgarraServicio de Otorrinolaringologia, Hospital Clinico-Universitario, Valencia, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Hearing AidsHearing Loss, SensorineuralMobile ApplicationsSpeech PerceptionAudiometry, Pure-ToneAuditory ThresholdHearingHumansSmartphonehearing aidshearing lossmobile applications

Identifiers

PMID32519992
PMCPMC7586188

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