Costs of different strategies for neonatal hearing screening: A modelling approach

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Boshuizen, H C ^a   Van der Lem, G J ^b   Kauffman de Boer, M A ^b   Van Zanten, G A ^c   Oudesluys Murphy, A M ^d   Verkerk, P H ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch foundation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child   (Netherlands)

^c SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated auditory brainstem response; Costs; Hearing; Otoacoustic emissions; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ECONOMICS; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEAFNESS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0035515446     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.85.3.f177     Document Type: Article

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