Hearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearing.
Publication Date
2019-01Journal Title
Trends Hear
ISSN
2331-2165
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Language
en
Type
Article
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VoR
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Akeroyd, M. A., Browning, G. G., Davis, A. C., & Haggard, M. P. (2019). Hearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearing.. Trends Hear https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216519887614
Abstract
The 1011-page book, Hearing in Adults, published in 1995, contains the fullest report of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council National Study of Hearing. It was designed to determine the prevalence and distribution in Great Britain of audiometrically measured hearing loss as a function of age, gender, occupation, and noise exposure. The study’s size, quality, and breadth made it unique when it was done in the 1980s. These qualities remain, and its data are still the primary U.K. source for the prevalence of auditory problems. However, only 550 copies were printed, and the book is essentially unobtainable today. We describe here a fully searchable, open-access, digital (PDF) “reprinting” of Hearing in Adults, summarizing the study’s design and the book’s contents, together with a brief commentary in the light of subsequent developments.
Keywords
Perspective, audiology, prevalence, hearing loss
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MC_UP_1206/1, MR/S0028982/1)
Identifiers
10.1177_2331216519887614
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216519887614
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/300240
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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Licence URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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