Association Between Expanded Genomic Sequencing Combined With Hearing Screening and Detection of Hearing Loss Among Newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hearing loss is a global social burden. Early identification of hearing loss missed by newborn hearing screening tests in the neonatal intensive care unit is crucial.

Objective

To assess the association between expanded genomic sequencing combined with hearing screening and detection of hearing loss as well as improvement in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study was performed between August 8, 2016, and December 31, 2020, among 8078 newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of the Children's Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Follow-up for hearing status was performed via telephone interviews between September 1 and November 30, 2021.

Exposures

A hearing screening test and the

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274323 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature