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ArticleTrends in hearing

Guidelines for Diagnosing and Quantifying Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.

Brian C J Moore, David A Lowe, Graham Cox

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Article in Trends in hearing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Guidelines for Diagnosis of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Their Specificity.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2025
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  11. Healthcare Professionals and Noise-Generating Tools: Challenging Assumptions about Hearing Loss Risk.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  12. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
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  20. The role of the occupational physician in the early detection of occupational diseases.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Brian C J MooreCambridge Hearing Group, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7071-0671
David A LoweENT Department, 156705James Cook University Hospital, Cleveland, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1441-0065
Graham CoxENT Department (retired), 6397Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3725-5261
James Cook University Hospital · GBOxford University Hospitals NHS Trust · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0701870
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper makes recommendations for the diagnosis and quantification of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in a medico-legal context. A distinction is made between NIHL produced by: steady broadband noise, as occurs in some factories; more impulsive factory sounds, such as hammering; noise exposure during military service, which can involve very high peak sound levels; and exposure to very intense tones. It is argued that existing diagnostic methods, which were primarily developed to deal with NIHL produced by steady broadband noise, are not adequate for the diagnosis of NIHL produced by different types of exposures. Furthermore, some existing diagnostic methods are based on now-obsolete standards, and make unrealistic assumptions. Diagnostic methods are proposed for each of the types of noise exposure considered. It is recommended that quantification of NIHL for all types of exposures is based on comparison of the measured hearing threshold levels with the age-associated hearing levels (AAHLs) for a non-noise exposed population, as specified in ISO 7029 (2017), usually using the 50

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Hearing Loss, Noise-InducedNoise, OccupationalHearing TestsHumansdiagnosismilitary servicenoise exposurenoise-induced hearing lossquantification

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PMID35469496
PMCPMC9052822
OpenAlexW4224950750

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