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Original Paper

The epidemiology of hearing problems: how should we investigate it?

Dafydd Stephens From the Welsh Hearing Institute, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Peter Lewis Department of Mathematics, University of Bath, Bath, UK
&
Adrian Davis MRC, Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK
Pages 11-15 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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