The Otoacoustic Emissions in the Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening: A Scoping Review Update on the African Data (2004 to 2024).

ABSTRACT: Background: The reported data on African universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS) practices tend to be quite scarce, despite the developments in hearing screening the last two decades. The objective of this systematic review was (a) to identify the most recent (in a 20-year span) literature information about NHS/UNHS programs in Africa and (b) to provide data on the procedures used to assess the population, the intervention policies, and on the estimated prevalence of congenital hearing loss with an emphasis on bilateral hearing loss cases. Methods: Queries were conducted via the PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases for the time window of 2004-2024. The mesh terms used were "OAE", "universal neonatal hearing screening", "congenital hearing loss", "well babies", and

SUBMITTER: Hatzopoulos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11854534 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature