Universal newborn hearing screening and postnatal hearing loss

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Weichbold, Viktor ^a,b   Nekahm Heis, Doris ^a   Welzl Mueller, Kunigunde ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Clinical Department of Hearing Voice and Speech Disorders   (Austria)

Author keywords

Early hearing detection and intervention; Permanent childhood hearing impairment; Postnatal hearing impairment; Risk indicators; Universal newborn hearing screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN SCREENING; OTITIS MEDIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR; CHILD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646377165     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-1455     Document Type: Article

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