The Cost-Effectiveness of Newborn Hearing Screening
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of newborn hearing screening strategies.
CONTEXT Congenital hearing loss affects between 1 and 3 out of every 1,000 children. Screening of all neonates has been made possible by the development of portable automated devices. Universal screening is a 2-stage screening process using automated transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions, followed when indicated by automated auditory brain response testing. Targeted screening reserves the 2-st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0030-6622,1883-0854
DOI: 10.3950/jibiinkoka.121.1258