Preschool hearing, speech, language, and vision screening

Quality in Health Care

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 240-247

  Bamford, John ^a   Davis, Adrian ^b   Boyle, James ^c   Law, James ^d   Chapman, Sarah ^e   Brown, Sarah Stewart ^e   Sheldon, Trevor A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH DISORDER; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0032447574     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.7.4.240     Document Type: Article

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