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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
Samit Shah
Bharat Gopal
Janet Reis

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Vol. 22, Issue 1
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Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Assessment of Portable Entertainment Player Use and Hearing Acuity in a Community Sample
Samit Shah, Bharat Gopal, Janet Reis, Michael Novak
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Jan 2009, 22 (1) 17-23; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.01.080033
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