ArticleEuropean archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery2026
Accuracy of the mobile application-based audiometry for screening hearing loss.
Article in European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeTo evaluate the accuracy of the mobile application compared to that of conventional audiometry for screening hearing loss.
methodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted in the tertiary hospital between July 2023 and October 2024. A total of 200 participants, aged 18-65 years, who underwent conventional audiometry were included in the study. Each participant also completed a hearing test using a mobile application on a 9th-generation iPad in a quiet room. Mean differences in pure tone threshold (PTT) and pure tone average between conventional audiometry and the mobile application were analysed using a paired t-test. A Bland-Altman plot was used to assess agreement in PTT measurements between the two methods. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the mobile application were also calculated.
resultsThe mobile application demonstrated an overall accuracy of 81.5% in distinguishing between normal and abnormal hearing. A strong correlation was observed between thePTTs of the two methods at 4, 6, and 8 kHz. Sensitivity and specificity were PTTs of the two methods at 4, 6, and 8 kHz. Sensitivity and specificity were particularly high at these frequencies. The results indicated both systematic and random errors; however, after correction for mean differences, sensitivity improved while maintaining high specificity.
conclusionThe Ear Test application demonstrated high accuracy in evaluating hearing thresholds at high frequencies but presented limitations at lower frequencies. These findings suggest its potential for screening sensorineural hearing loss, particularly at high frequencies. Further development of the application is recommended to address systemic errors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
41430441What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.