Validation of questionnaire-reported hearing with medical records: A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

BACKGROUND:Hearing loss is a potential late effect after childhood cancer. Questionnaires are often used to assess hearing in large cohorts of childhood cancer survivors and it is important to know if they can provide valid measures of hearing loss. We therefore assessed agreement and validity of qu...

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Main Authors: Annette Weiss, Grit Sommer, Rahel Kuonen, Katrin Scheinemann, Michael Grotzer, Martin Kompis, Claudia E Kuehni, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5363962?pdf=render