Rural barriers to early diagnosis and treatment of infant hearing loss in appalachia

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 93-98

  Bush, Matthew L ^a   Hardin, Bryan ^b   Rayle, Christopher ^a   Lester, Cathy ^c   Studts, Christina R ^d   Shinn, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Cabinet for Health and Family Services Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachia; Barriers to health care access; Infant hearing loss; Rural health care

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

APPALACHIAN REGION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919479288     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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