Cost-effectiveness and test-performance factors in relation to universal newborn hearing screening

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-108

  Gorga, Michael P ^a   Neely, Stephen T ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Likelihood ratio; Long term benefit; Test performance

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; NEWBORN SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037980241     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.10066     Document Type: Review

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