Receipt and Timeliness of Newborn Hearing Screening and Diagnostic Services Among Babies Born in 2017 in 9 States.

ABSTRACT:

Context

By providing timely services at all steps along the continuum of the early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) process, providers may be able to lessen potential adverse effects of late identification of hearing loss on children's language development.

Objective

To examine the timeliness of key events in the EHDI process from birth through diagnosis of hearing loss among different populations.

Design

Retrospective, cross-sectional.

Setting

Data pooled from 9 states' EHDI information systems were used to determine the extent to which timely screening and diagnosis were achieved by 754 613 infants born in calendar year 2017. Enrollment into early intervention for children diagnosed is not examined here due to incomplete data.

Participants

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SUBMITTER: Deng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8436596 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature