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Hearing TestingAka: Whispered Voice Testing, Audiogram
- See also
- Indication: Hearing Loss Screening
- Whispered Voice Testing
- Patient occludes opposite ear with one hand
- Patient covers eye (prevents lip reading)
- Examiner whispers questions or commands
- Two feet from patients ear
- Avoid Yes or No questions
- Patient answers or follows commands
- Avoid testing with finger snapping or ticking watch
- Not accurate for hearing testing
- Interpretation
- Abnormal results should be tested with audiogram
Hearing Tests (C0018786) | |
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| Definition (CSP) | a general term for the measurement of hearing. |
| Concepts | Diagnostic Procedure (T060) |
| ICD9 | 95.42, 95.47 |
| English | Audiogram, Auditory acuity evaluation, Auditory testing, CLINICAL HEARING TEST, Clinical test of hearing, HEARING EXAM, Hearing examination, hearing test, Hearing Tests, HT - Hearing test, Individual hearing examination |
| Spanish | audiograma, evaluacion de agudeza auditiva, evaluacion de la agudeza auditiva, examen audiologico, examen de la audicion, prueba auditiva, prueba clinica de la audicion |
| Parent Concepts | hearing system diagnosis (C0683442), Diagnostic Techniques, Otological (C0011908), Nonoperative procedures related to hearing (C0178089), Hearing Tests (C0018786), Audiological evaluation (C0200297), Ambiguous concept (C1274012) |
| Sources | AOD, COSTAR, CSP, ICD9CM, MSH, MTH, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
