Newborn hearing screening: A regional example for national care

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Adelola, O A ^a   Papanikolaou, V ^a   Gormley, P ^a   Lang, J ^a   Keogh, I J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; IRELAND; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREVALENCE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRELAND; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 77954412529     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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