Audit of local performance compared with standards recommended by the national guidelines for aetiologic investigation of permanent childhood hearing impairment

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 649-657

  Yoong, Soo ^a   Spencer, N ^b  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aetiologic investigation; Audit; Childhood hearing impairment; National guidelines

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GENETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAKISTAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; CONNEXINS; EAR DISEASES; EAR, INNER; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GUIDELINES; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MUTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27544484394     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00558.x     Document Type: Article

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