Challenges of Implementing Universal Newborn Hearing Screening at a Tertiary Care Centre from India

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 688-693

  Gupta, Shuchita ^a   Sah, Sandhya ^a   Som, Tapas ^a   Saksena, Manju ^a   Yadav, Chander Prakash ^a   Sankar, M Jeeva ^a   Thakar, Alok ^a   Agarwal, Ramesh ^a   Deorari, Ashok K ^a   Paul, Vinod K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Automated acoustic brainstem response; Universal newborn hearing screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY EVOKED RESPONSE STIMULATOR; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUTOMATED ACOUSTIC BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; AUTOMATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ECONOMICS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING DISORDERS; INFANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84937971968     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-015-1688-4     Document Type: Article

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