Revisiting the Quartic Model for Early Identification of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

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• Personal Author:
  Franks, John R. ; Murphy, William J.
• Description:
  In a 1976 article by Cooper and Owen (Audiologic profile of noise-induced hearing loss, Arch. Otolaryngol. 102:148-150), they advanced a quartic model to perform a least-squares fit to an audiogram for the purpose of identifying a noise-induced notch indicative of early onset of noise-induced hearing loss. This model has been revisited for the purpose of better quantification of a set of rules that will best identify the presence or absence of a noise-notch. A subset of 1660 subjects' right and left audiograms collected for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES IV) were fit with a quartic model. As well, several hearing scientists and audiologists within NIOSH examined and classified the audiograms as having a notch Oil not. Preliminary results suggest that the choice of notch criteria dramatically affects the identification accuracy when correlated with clinical judgments. This paper will present how these rules were developed and how the quartic model may be interpreted and applied in a hearing conservation program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Lung Lung Diseases Mining Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Audiological-testing Audiometry Hearing-conservation Hearing-loss Models Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss
• ISSN:
  1083-7388
• Publisher:
  National Hearing Conservation Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  26
• Volume:
  22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029057
• Citation:
  Spectrum 2005 Feb; 22(Suppl 1):26
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Hearing Loss ; Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Spectrum: the National Hearing Conservation Association newsletter
• Supplement:
  1
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190128/cdc_190128_DS1.pdf
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