Can an average of thresholds at 2 kHz and 4 kHz substitute for the threshold at 3 kHz in pure tone audiometry? A study based on the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2010–2012

• Ju Yeon Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Sung Wan Byun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sung Wan Byun, Seung-Ho Shin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: byunsw66@gmail.com (SB); drshinsh@gmail.com (SS)

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Seung-Ho Shin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sung Wan Byun, Seung-Ho Shin

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: byunsw66@gmail.com (SB); drshinsh@gmail.com (SS)

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8093-2673

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• Mi Sun Chun

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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