Meikle M, Taylor-Walsh E
J Laryngol Otol Suppl. 1984;9:17-21. doi: 10.1017/s1755146300090053.
This report has provided a brief survey of the Tinnitus Clinic population as it appeared near the end of 1981, when 1806 patients had been seen. That number is probably sufficient to provide satisfactory statistical reliability for the observations cited here. It should be mentioned that the Tinnitus Clinic has continued to accumulate cases, at the approximate rate of 30 per month, and at this writing the total number of patients seen to date is over 2300. The data obtained from the first 1806 patients were collected under conditions that were not as homogeneous as those prevailing now, in that standardized testing equipment was not available until January 1979, and testing techniques were continuing to be revised even after that time. In addition a major revision of the patient questionnaires was undertaken late in 1981, with the result that much more detailed information is being obtained than was formerly possible using the old questionnaire format. Thus, we can anticipate that the next such survey of the Tinnitus Clinic population will offer considerably expanded and more detailed types of observations than those presented here.
本报告简要概述了耳鸣诊所截至1981年底的患者情况，当时已诊治1806名患者。这个数字或许足以使此处引用的观察结果具有令人满意的统计可靠性。应当提及的是，耳鸣诊所仍在继续积累病例，大约每月30例，撰写本文时，迄今诊治的患者总数已超过2300例。从前1806名患者那里获得的数据是在不如现在普遍的条件下收集的，因为直到1979年1月才有标准化检测设备，而且即便在那之后检测技术仍在不断修订。此外，1981年末对患者问卷进行了重大修订，结果是使用旧问卷格式已无法获得比以前详细得多的信息。因此，我们可以预期，下次对耳鸣诊所患者群体进行此类调查时，将能提供比本文所呈现的更为广泛和详细的观察结果类型。
