Infant hearing screening: route to informed choice

Infant hearing screening: route to informed choice.

The decision to participate in infant screening often rests with parents. Medical ethics require that parental decision is elicited from informed choice. Such a decision is influenced by the parental knowledge and attitude towards screening and a careful evaluation of these factors is essential in seeking informed consent for infant hearing screening.

Informed Choice in Screening

A) For health economists demand analysis seeks to identify which factors are most influential in determining how much care people are willing to purchase. That knowledge can be used to forecast demand more accurately and to predict changes in utilisation. The classical determinants of demand are incidence of illness and a set of cultural-demographic and economics factors. The assumption of cons...

Informed choice in cancer screening.

Relationship of Informed Choice about Fetal Anomaly Screening with Worry and Anxiety in Pregnant Women

Background & aim: The purpose of prenatal screening programs during pregnancy is to empower the women to make an informed choice and reduce the uncertainty in decision making. However, the screening itself may cause worry and anxiety in the pregnant females. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of the informed choice in the pregnant females about fetal anomaly screening with worry a...

Infant hearing screening: effects of timeline.

OBJECTIVES Universal infant hearing screening using otoacoustic emission and auditory brain-stem response audiometry is widely administered to attain the goals of early identification of, and intervention for hearing impairment. Concerns regarding screening specificity have, however, been raised. False positives may result from vernix occlusion in the ear canal or transient middle ear effusion,...