Neonatal hearing screening: Have we taken the right road? Results from a 10-year targeted screen longitudinally followed up in a single district

Audiological Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 175-184

  Watkin, Peter ^a   Hasan, Javed ^a   Baldwin, Margaret ^a   Ahmed, Mas ^b  

^a WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING GEORGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deafness; Neonatal screening; Risk factors; USPS Task Force

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 28744444288     PISSN: 1651386X     EISSN: 16513835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16513860500268191     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Davis AC, Hind S. The newborn hearing screening programme in England. Int J Ped Otorhinol 2003; 67 (Suppl 1): S193-6.
2. Thompson DC, McPhillips H, Davis RL, Lieu TL, Homer CJ, Helfand MD. Universal newborn hearing screening summary of evidence. J Am Med Acad 2001; 286: 2000-10.
3. American National Institutes of Health. Early identification of hearing impairment in infants and young children. NIH Consensus Statement 1993; 11: 1-24.
4. Galambos R, Wilson MJ, Silva PD. Identifying hearing loss in the intensive care nursery: a 20-year summary. J Am Acad Audiol 1994; 5: 151-62.
5. Fonseca S, Forsyth H, Grigor J, Lowe J, MacKinnon M, Price E, et al. Identification of permanent hearing loss in children: are targets for outcome measures attainable? Br J Audiol 1999; 33: 135-43.
6. Rowe SJ. An evaluation of ABR audiometry for the screening and detection of hearing loss in ex-SCBU infants. Br J Audiol 1991; 25: 259-74.
7. UK Census Dissemination Unit. Deprivation scores based on 1991area statistics: DOE Index of Local Conditions. http://census.ac.uk/dcu/ 1999.
8. Fortnum H, Summerfield Q, Marshall DH, Davis AC, Bamford JM. Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment in the United Kingdom and implications for universal neonatal hearing screening: questionnaire based ascertainment study. Br Med J 2001; 323: 536.
9. Davis AC, Bamford J, Wilson I, Ramkalawan T, Forshaw M, Wright S. A critical review of the role of neonatal hearing screening in the detection of congenital hearing impairment. Health Technol Assess 1997; 1: 1-176.
10. Hyde M, Riko K, Malizia K. Audiometric accuracy of the click ABR in infants at risk for hearing loss. J Am Acad Audiol 1990; 1: 59-66.
11. Yoshinago-Itano C, Sedey AL, Coulter DK, Mehli AL. Language of early and later identified children with hearing loss. Pediatrics 1998; 102: 1161-71.
12. Joint Committee on Infant Hearing. Year 2000 Position Statement: Principles and Guidelines for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs. Am J Audiol 2000; 9: 9-29.
13. Humphreys B. The ascertainment and management of defective hearing in the very young. Public Health 1957; 71: 221-8.
14. Howarth IE. Screening tests of hearing in pre-school children, with particular reference to selective testing. Med Off 1958; 100: 307-8.
15. Hamilton FW, Richards IDG, Barron MC, Mackie EM, Finlayson MJW. The at risk register in Glasgow. Med Off 1968; 119: 201-2.
16. Knox EG, Mahon DF. Evaluation of infant at risk registers. Arch Dis Child 1970; 45: 634-9.
17. Mencher GT, Davis AC, DeVoe SJ, Beresford D, Bamford JM. Universal neonatal hearing screening: past, present and future. Am J Audiol 2001; 10: 3-12.
18. Gerber S. Review of a high risk register for congenital and early onset deafness. Br J Audiol 1990; 24: 347-56.
19. Wood S, Davis AC, McCormick B. Changing performance of the health visitor distraction test when targeted neonatal screening is introduced in a health district. Br J Audiol 1997; 31: 55-61.
20. Sutton G, Rowe S. Risk factors for deafness in the Oxford Region. Br J Audiol 1997; 31: 39-54.
21. Watkin PM, Baldwin M, McEnery G. Neonatal at risk screening and the identification of deafness. Arch Dis Child 1991; 45: 1130-5.
22. Wood S, Farnsworth A, Davis A. The identification and referral of babies with a family history of congenital hearing loss for hearing screening. J Audiol Med 1995; 4: 25-33.
23. Watkin PM, Baldwin. M, Laoide S. Parental suspicion and the identification of hearing impairment. Arch Dis Child 1990; 65: 846-50.
24. Fortnum H, Davis A, Butler A, Stevens J. Health service changes in the aetiology and referral pattern of hearing impaired children in Trent 1985-1993. Report to Trent Health: MRC Institute of Hearing Research and Trent Health.