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Original Article

Development of Telscreen: a telephone-based speech-in-noise hearing screening test with a novel masking noise and scoring procedure

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Pages 463-471 | Received 14 Oct 2015, Accepted 25 Mar 2016, Published online: 03 May 2016

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