In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the medical literature about the study of the different existing screening procedures to detect hearing impairment in infants and young children. However, concerning their economic evaluation, there are some important aspects, such as indirect costs, which are not considered by that literature. Here, we present an economic evaluation o...

UNLABELLED Hearing loss is more prevalent than other disorders found at birth. Efforts have been put up towards the early identification and treatment of hearing loss by means of neonatal hearing screening programs. AIM prospective study with the goal of characterizing the process of implementing a Neonatal Auditory Screening Program (NASP) at a University Hospital. To analyze hearing loss di...

OBJECTIVE Investigate the prevalence of hearing impairment in newborns hospitalized at the Intensive and Intermediate Care Unit at the Women's Comprehensive Health Center Neonatology Service (UNICAMP) and associated risk factors. METHODS 979 newborn babies were assessed between January 2000 and January 2003, through automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) (ALGO 2e color screener). The re...

About 1 in 1000 children are born each year with hearing impairment sufficiently severe to compromise speech and language development and communication. There has been much work in recent years to reduce the age of diagnosis and intervention for these children. The paper by Pimperton et al, provides important evidence to support the observations of those working clinically with these children, ...

AIM To report the preliminary findings of a pilot program to screen newborn babies for congenital bilateral permanent hearing loss. SETTING The five largest maternity hospitals in Perth, Western Australia. Screening was gradually introduced over seven months from February to August 2000. PARTICIPANTS All babies born at these hospitals after the introduction of hearing screening until 30 Jun...

From the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology and Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston (C.C.M.); and the De partment of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Otolaryngology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (W.E.N.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Nance at the Department of Huma...

Newborn hearing screening is an established healthcare standard in many countries and testing is feasible using otoacoustic emission (OAE) recording. It is well documented that OAEs can be suppressed by acoustic stimulation of the ear contralateral to the test ear. In clinical otoacoustic emission testing carried out in a sound attenuating booth, ambient noise levels are low such that the effer...