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Comments on a New Test and Some Case Reports

CLAIR N. HANLEY, Ph.D.; WILLIAM R. TIFFANY, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1954;60(2):197-201.

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The literature on hearing testing is replete, not to say overburdened, with tests for nonorganic hearing loss, usually labeled "malingering tests." We have found over 40 such tests in the literature, including the well-known Stenger, Lombard, and Doerfler-Stewart as well as the less well-known Hummel, Dolger, Becker, and Tschudi tests. Successive authors have pointed to the many more clinical signs, not dignified by the name "test" but nevertheless indicating the possibility of faked deafness in the patient who complains of hearing loss. Among such signs are included the unreliability of repeated audiograms, inconsistencies in speech and hearing responses, presence of conditioned responses, and many others. There would seem to be little point in discussing a new "malingering test" in these pages unless it can be shown that the need for better diagnostic measures in this realm still exists.

Unfortunately, the need for more reliable examination procedures does exist for nonorganic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SEATTLE

From the Department of Speech, University of Washington.

Footnotes
Reference 2, pp. 405 and 406.

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