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Research Articles

The leaky pipeline of hearing care: primary to secondary care evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

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Pages 349-357 | Received 11 Jan 2022, Accepted 28 Feb 2023, Published online: 23 Mar 2023

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