OBJECTIVE To establish the reliability and effectiveness of screening for hearing loss by brainstem auditory evoked potential testing in high risk neonates. DESIGN Seven year investigation of newborn babies admitted to a special care baby unit and monitored through a regional children's audiology unit. SETTING Special care baby unit and children's audiology department, Belfast. SUBJECTS 4...

We show that in sequential screening problems with ex post participation constraints, optimal contracts do screen sequentially when the principal and agent can trade multiple units, in contrast to when they can trade a single unit only. The difference arises because with multiple units, each marginal unit can be priced differently, giving rise to a larger number of screening instruments compare...

As part of an epidemiological study of hypertension, an analysis was made of the general practitioner records of all attenders at a screening survey. A blood pressure recording, made before screening, was found in 37-9 per cent of cases. The pressures obtained correlated well with those obtained by the screening unit, though the practitioners' readings tended to be lower. Further cases of hyper...

Methods Over 10 weeks in 2010, 250 prospectively recruited admissions to a busy, ring fenced JR unit underwent admission screening for MRSA and demographic screening using a standardised questionnaire based on the unit’s admission policy which is designed to exclude patients at high risk of MRSA colonisation. Subjects comprised of patients admitted for reasons other than JR surgery, as well as ...