Results of a 1-year government-funded newborn hearing screening program in Taiwan

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1275-1278

  Hsu, Hsin Chien ^a   Lee, Fei Peng ^b,c   Huang, Hung Meng ^a,c  

^a TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

automated auditory brainstem response; Hearing impairment; hearing screening; neonate; transient evoked otoacoustic emission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUTOMATIC AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING TEST; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879293952     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23713     Document Type: Article

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