Newborn hearing screening in Kuwait

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 305-313

  Al Kandari, J M ^a   Alshuaib, Waleed B ^b  

^a Ahmadi Hospital   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

BERA; Hearing Loss; Newborn; OAE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEARING LOSS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KUWAIT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR;

HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KUWAIT; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548708604     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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