Overview of newborn hearing screening programs in Brazilian maternity hospitals
INTRODUCTION: Newborn hearing screening has as its main objective the early identification of hearing loss in newborns and infants. In order to guarantee good results, quality indicators for newborn hearing screening programs are used as benchmarks. OBJECTIVE: To observe and describe the realit...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-07-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-86942014000400346&lng=en&tlng=en |