Outcome of a universal newborn hearing-screening programme based on multiple transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions and clinical brainstem response audiometry

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 728-739

  Berninger, Erik ^a   Westling, Birgitta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; laterality; neonatal screening; sex characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN STEM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959220215     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2011.554440     Document Type: Article

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