The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the efficacy of hearing screening tools to identify hearing loss in the older adult population. The test-retest reliability of both the AuDX DPOAE hand-held screener and subjective otoscopic ratings of percent earwax accumulation were evaluated. Additionally, the predictive validity was investigated for five hearing screening tools: the DPOA...

OBJECTIVE A national survey of early hearing detection services was undertaken to describe the demographics, protocols and performance of early hearing detection, referral, follow-up and data management practices in the private health care sector of South Africa. METHODS All private hospitals with obstetric units (n=166) in South Africa were surveyed telephonically. This data was incorporated...

Objective. Until recently, no objective tool has been available to help health and early childhood education providers screen young children for hearing loss. The aim of this study was to screen underserved children <= 3 years of age for hearing loss using Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) technology and to systematically document multi-step screening and diagnostic outcomes. Methods. A total of 4519...

CONTEXT Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic condition in older adults and has important effects on their physical and mental health. Despite these effects, most older patients are not assessed or treated for hearing loss. OBJECTIVE To review the evidence on screening and management of hearing loss of older adults in the primary care setting. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION We ...

OBJECTIVES The study aimed to determine the validity of a smartphone hearing screening technology (hearScreen™) compared with conventional screening audiometry in terms of (1) sensitivity and specificity, (2) referral rate, and (3) test time. DESIGN One thousand and seventy school-age children in grades 1 to 3 (8 ± 1.1 average years) were recruited from five public schools. Children were scre...

INTRODUCTION Newborn hearing screening has as its main objective the early identification of hearing loss in newborns and infants. In order to guarantee good results, quality indicators for newborn hearing screening programs are used as benchmarks. OBJECTIVE To observe and describe the reality of national newborn hearing screening programs in Brazil, and to evaluate if they can be referred to...

OBJECTIVE In this review, we have presented the data of our National Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NNHSP) with total 764,352 newborns those screened in last five years. METHODS National Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NNHSP) has been conducted in Turkey since the year 2003. National Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NNHSP) had begun at the end of 2003 only in 1 center. After birth, i...

background in many industries, noise is attributed as the most prevalent harmful agent threatening workers' health. geographic information system (gis) is an applicable surveying tool in civil engineering. but, the use of gis for noise and hearing loss screening seems to be partly a new approach. objectives this study aimed to apply gis in noise and hearing loss screening in the production hall...

PURPOSE Previous studies of connexin-related hearing loss have typically reported on mixed age groups or adults. To further address epidemiology and natural history of connexin-related hearing loss, we conducted a longitudinal study in an ethnically diverse cohort of infants and toddlers under 3 years of age. Our study compares infants with and without connexin-related hearing loss to examine d...