Early hearing screening: What is the best strategy?

Newborn hearing screening on infants at risk

“…This extrapolation is within the range of that noted by other studies [16,18,[25][26][27]. However, this rather large extrapolation, does not take into account further hearing evaluation which may have been performed in the discharge hospitals where additional care could have been provided.…”

“…Several studies also demonstrate that newborn hearing screening does not lead to higher maternal anxiety nor negatively impacts mother-infant relationships [27]. Because worse hearing outcomes are associated with a 2 months after birth delayed screening, UNHS should be performed on every newborn as early as possible, i.e.…”

The universal newborn hearing screening program at the University Hospital of Ferrara: Focus on costs and software solutions

“…However, the motivations in favor of a screening program are high [22,31,34,35] even if the longterm effects induced by those emotional states are presently unknown. The data in the literature support our experience that is the neonatal hearing screening is quite-well accepted by families [22,31,33,36,37] and in light of these data the importance of sharing qualitative information with the families of the REFER infants is considered as one of the most fundamental factors for a screening program which aims at an efficient intervention policy.…”

Newborn hearing screening programme outcomes in a research hospital from Turkey

“…The participation being higher shows that the neonatal hearing screening programme is quite-well accepted by the families. As this test was applied for the first time in our hospital by comparing the coverage rate with data from different countries, the participation is to be considered high enough (Shoup et al 2005;Kolski et al 2007;Olusanya et al 2008).…”