Citation

Adera T, Donahue AM, Malit BD, Gaydos JC. Mil. Med. 1993; 158(11): 698-701.

Affiliation

Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8284053

Abstract

A hearing conservation program (HCP) must include audiometric monitoring. In keeping with this requirement, enormous bodies of audiometric data have been accumulated. However, only a limited number of methods are available for using audiometric data to assess HCP effectiveness. This study illustrates an epidemiologic method. The risk of developing hearing loss (measured by the standard threshold shift) was compared between study and reference populations using the risk ratio. The study population had an increased risk of nearly 3-fold. Epidemiologic risk comparison methods, using reference populations, offer an alternative to current methods for HCP evaluation using audiometric data.

Language: en