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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Main Authors: Hannalice Gottschalck Cavalcanti, Luciana Pimentel Fernandes de Melo, Laisa Flávia Soares Fernandes Peixoto Buarque, Ricardo Oliveira Guerra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-07-01
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