How accurate are bedside hearing test?

KAUFFMAN MARCELO; GONZALEZ MORON DOLORES; BRUNO VERÓNICA

NEUROLOGY

Año: 2007 vol. 69 p. 1382 - 1382

0028-3878

HOW ACCURATE ARE BEDSIDE HEARING TESTS? To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Boatman et al., who conclude that bedside tests for hearing loss have low sensibility and good specificity.1 We concur with the authors that despite their wide use among neurologists, these tests are not appropriate screening tools.2-4 We recently conducted a similar study to determine the accuracy of the Rinne and Weber tuning fork tests, using pure-tone audiometry as the standard reference, and to establish the diagnostic concordance between the combined use of them and tonal audiometry.