The main aim of the study was to find a correlation between the pure-tone threshold measured by a classic audiometer and estimated from input/output function of distortion product otoacoustic emission. The measurements were performed for a group of 27 factory workers and a control group of 10 young subjects with normal hearing (YNH). The interrelations between the results of these two methods w...

We evaluated the validity of remote pure tone audiometric testing conducted from North America on subjects in South Africa. Desktop-sharing computer software was used to control an audiometer in Pretoria from Dallas, and PC-based videoconferencing was employed for clinician and subject communication. Thirty adult subjects were assessed, and the pure tone audiometric thresholds (125-8000 Hz) obt...