An alternative strategy for universal infant hearing screening in tertiary hospitals with a high delivery rate, within a developing country, using transient evoked oto-acoustic emissions and brainstem evoked response audiometry

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 639-643

  Mathur, N N ^a,b   Dhawan, R ^a  

^a KALAWATI SARAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Audiometry, Evoked Response; Deafness; Developing Countries; Mass Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENDOSCOPY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FOLLOW UP; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AUDIOMETRY; DEAFNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 34347351337     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: 17485460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215106004403     Document Type: Article

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