Background: An estimated 360 million people have a disabling hearing impairment globally,
the vast majority of whom live in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Early …

Introduction: Mobile health (m-health) has the potential to improve access and uptake of
health services globally. Noncommunicable diseases such as hearing loss have seen …

Smartphone-based threshold audiometry with automated testing has the potential to provide
affordable access to audiometry in underserved contexts. To validate the threshold version …

Objectives (1) To compare the accuracy of 2 previously validated mobile-based hearing
tests in determining pure tone thresholds and screening for hearing loss.(2) To determine …

Objective Many patients attending the emergency room (ER) with vertigo, leave without a
diagnosis. We assessed whether the three tools could improve ER diagnosis of vertigo …

Seventy Ménière's disease (MD) patients with spontaneous vertigo (100%), unilateral aural
fullness (57.1%), tinnitus (78.6%), and subjective hearing loss (75.7%) self-recorded …

Background Hearing screening tests based on pure-tone audiometry may be conducted on
mobile devices, provided that the devices are specially calibrated for the purpose …

Background There is evidence to suggest that rates of hearing loss are increasing more
rapidly than the capacity of traditional audiometry resources for screening. A novel …

Background Hearing loss affects 1 in 5 people worldwide and is estimated to affect 1 in 4 by
2050. Treatment relies on the accurate diagnosis of hearing loss; however, this first step is …

Following the efforts of patient advocates, the World Health Organization published updated
guidelines for management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2018 that advised against …