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Review Article

A critical review of the literature on comfort of hearing protection devices: definition of comfort and identification of its main attributes for earplug types

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Pages 824-833 | Received 06 Feb 2019, Accepted 17 Jul 2019, Published online: 31 Jul 2019

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