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Comparison of Monaural and Binaural Hearing Aid Use on a Trial Period Basis
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1985
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Monaural Hearing AidsAural RehabilitationHealth SciencesAural AugmentationAudiologyNoiseHearing HealthThirty Hearing-impaired PatientsRehabilitationHuman HearingHearing ConservationBinaural Hearing AidsArtsHearing PreservationTrial Period BasisAnesthesiologyHearing Loss
Thirty hearing-impaired patients compared monaural and binaural hearing aid use for a period of 4 weeks. Most of them preferred binaural hearing aids in quiet situations, but monaural hearing aids in noisy environments. Follow-up at 6 months revealed that 17 had purchased monaural hearing aids, 8 had purchased binaural hearing aids.