{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,6]],"date-time":"2026-01-06T13:40:26Z","timestamp":1767706826663},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press (CUP)","issue":"10","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2007,4,10]],"date-time":"2007-04-10T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1176163200000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/terms"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J. Laryngol. Otol."],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2007,10]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: To evaluate the role of otoacoustic emission in children with middle-ear effusion and grommets.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Materials and methods: A prospective study was carried out on a total of 90 ears. All children listed for grommet insertion had a pre-operative and post-operative (three to six months after grommet insertion) pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and otoacoustic emission recorded. A comparison was made between pure tone audiometry and otoacoustic emission both pre-operatively and post-operatively.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: Pre-operatively, 63 ears had an abnormal pure tone audiometry of which 59 had absent otoacoustic emission. Therefore the sensitivity of otoacoustic emission in detecting a conductive loss was 59\/63\u00a0=\u00a094 per cent (95 per cent confidence interval 85 to 98 per cent). All 27 ears with normal hearing pre-operatively had normal otoacoustic emission. The specificity of otoacoustic emission was 27\/27\u00a0=\u00a0100 per cent, (95 per cent confidence interval, 88 to 100 per cent). The positive predictive value was 59\/59\u00a0=\u00a0100 per cent (95 per cent confidence interval, 94 to 100 per cent). After three to six months all post-operative patients with grommets had a normal pure tone audiometry and otoacoustic emission. So both pure tone audiometry and otoacoustic emission were strongly related both in patients with middle-ear effusion and in patients with grommets.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusion: As the demonstration of hearing in young and difficult-to-test children can be problematic and time-consuming, we suggest that otoacoustic emission can be used as an alternative to pure tone audiometry in patients with middle-ear effusion and grommets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0022215107007347","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,4,10]],"date-time":"2007-04-10T06:20:19Z","timestamp":1176186019000},"page":"943-946","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Role of otoacoustic emission in children with middle-ear effusion and grommets"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"121","author":[{"given":"Y","family":"Saleem","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S","family":"Ramachandran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"L","family":"Ramamurthy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"N J","family":"Kay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,4,10]]},"container-title":["The Journal of Laryngology &amp; Otology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0022215107007347","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,1]],"date-time":"2019-05-01T16:18:06Z","timestamp":1556727486000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0022215107007347\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2007,4,10]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"10","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2007,10]]}},"alternative-id":["S0022215107007347"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0022215107007347","relation":{},"ISSN":["0022-2151","1748-5460"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0022-2151","type":"print"},{"value":"1748-5460","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2007,4,10]]}}}