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[Critical review of the SISI-test (author's transl)]. 1979

R Brix

For the last twenty years since the first publication the SISI-test (Jerger et al. 1959) is used as a standard test in audiometry, although the clinical utility has been doubted by many audiologists. The aim of this study is to show essential test-theoretical mistakes which exist--apart from the bad clinical results--in the SISI-test. The most important fault is, that the diagnosis of clinical groups is established by means of the comparison of different test-stimuli (different main intensities).

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007759	Labyrinth Diseases	Pathological processes of the inner ear (LABYRINTH) which contains the essential apparatus of hearing (COCHLEA) and balance (SEMICIRCULAR CANALS).	Inner Ear Disease,Ear Disease, Inner,Ear Diseases, Inner,Inner Ear Diseases,Labyrinth Disease
D012000	Recruitment Detection, Audiologic	Tests for measuring loudness recruitment.	Alternate Binaural Loudness Balance Test,Loudness Recruitment Detection,Short Increment Sensitivity Index,Audiologic Recruitment Detection,Detection, Audiologic Recruitment,Detection, Loudness Recruitment,Recruitment Detection, Loudness
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D003951	Diagnostic Errors	Incorrect or incomplete diagnoses following clinical or technical diagnostic procedures.	Diagnostic Blind Spots,Errors, Diagnostic,Misdiagnosis,Blind Spot, Diagnostic,Blind Spots, Diagnostic,Diagnostic Blind Spot,Diagnostic Error,Error, Diagnostic,Misdiagnoses
D004569	Electroencephalography	Recording of electric currents developed in the brain by means of electrodes applied to the scalp, to the surface of the brain, or placed within the substance of the brain.	EEG,Electroencephalogram,Electroencephalograms
D006311	Hearing Disorders	Conditions that impair the transmission of auditory impulses and information from the level of the ear to the temporal cortices, including the sensorineural pathways.	Distorted Hearing,Dysacusis,Paracousis,Paracusis,Hearing Disorder,Hearing, Distorted
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man