โปรแกรมช่วยบันทึก แปลผล และวิเคราะห์ทางสถิติของ Pure Tone Audiogram

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Pure tone audiogram is the fundamental hearing test for hearing loss patients. The audiologists will test both ear for air-conduction and bone-conduction pure tone hearing threshold at many frequencies. They will use the data to calculate the Average air-conduction threshold, Average bone-conduction threshold, Air-bone gap, Average low frequency threshold and average high frequency threshold. Then they send the audiograms to otolaryngologists to correlated them with clinical findings and diagnose the diseases. The process of recording, saving data, calculating, interpretation and medical statistic analysis usually are done on paper. That is repetitive and very hard to work with so many numbers (usually 24 numbers per case). So if we can use computer to do that work for us, it will be very easy and convenience.

The author using experience in otology and database management program, Visual Foxpro, designed and developed the user-friendly computer program for recording, saving, calculating, interpretation and analyzing pure tone audiogram data.