Newborn hearing screening: Recommendations and rationale

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 83-89

  Berg, Alfred O ^a   Allan, J D ^b   Frame, P S ^b   Homer, C J ^b   Johnson, M S ^b   Klein, J D ^b   Lieu, T A ^b   Mulrow, C D ^b   Orleans, C T ^b   Peipert, J F ^b   Pender, N J ^b   Siu, A L ^b   Teutsch, S M ^b   Westhoff, C ^b   Woolf, S H ^b  

^a US Preventive Services Task Force   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036833483     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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