Research ArticleOriginal Research

Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Assessment of Portable Entertainment Player Use and Hearing Acuity in a Community Sample

Samit Shah, Bharat Gopal, Janet Reis and Michael Novak
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2009, 22 (1) 17-23; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2009.01.080033

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