Universal neonatal hearing screening moving from evidence to practice

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Kennedy, C ^a,b   McCann, D ^b  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH;

HEALTH POLICY; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEONATAL SCREENING; SPEECH;

EID: 4444275884     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.034454     Document Type: Review

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