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. 2020 Sep 1;15(9):e0237523. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237523

Fig 4. Difference in hearing change, where positive pure tone average (PTA) change per group indicates hearing deterioration.

Fig 4

*Six studies [38, 40, 42, 44, 50, 51] reported the means and SDs before and after intervention but not the SDs of PTA changes. We calculated the mean PTA changes and the corresponding SDs, assuming the correlation of 0.859 before and after intervention. This correlation had been calculated from individual level data of 22 patients [49].