Who Gets Lost: Follow-up of Suspect Results in a Newborn Screening Program

Audiological Follow-up Results after Newborn Hearing Screening Program

OBJECTIVES To investigate the validity of newborn hearing screening protocol using automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) with a confirmation method using click auditory brainstem response (ABR) and to evaluate changes in hearing status of infants with confirmed congenital hearing loss. METHODS Neonates in the well-baby nursery were screened by staged AABR. Subjects whose final AABR res...

Who gets missed: coverage in a provincial newborn screening program for metabolic disease.

OBJECTIVE To determine coverage of the newborn screening program (NSP) for metabolic disease in Alberta, Canada, and to determine reasons for not being screened. STUDY DESIGN Coverage was estimated by deterministic matching of live birth registration data with newborn screening data for the year 1992. Demographic characteristics of not-matched infants were compared with good-match infants usi...

Loss to Follow-up After Newborn Hearing Screening and Its Related Factors

Background: Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects and early detection of this disorder at birth is not possible without hearing screening. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of loss to-follow-up after neonatal hearing screening and its related factors in KhoramAbad Province - Iran. Methods: This retrospective correlational study was conducted in the time period...

Factors influencing follow-up to newborn hearing screening for infants who are hard of hearing.

PURPOSE To document the epidemiological characteristics of a group of children who are hard of hearing, identify individual predictor variables for timely follow-up after a failed newborn hearing screening, and identify barriers to follow-up encountered by families. METHOD The authors used an accelerated longitudinal design to investigate outcomes for children who are hard of hearing in a lar...

efficacy of hepatitis b vaccine in those who lost hepatitis b surface antigen during follow-up