title: An automated hearing screening technique for newborns.
abstract: A newborn hearing screening technique (the Crib-o-gram) originally proposed by Simmons and Russ (1974) is described. The number of babies tested has now grown to over 12,000. The report presents follow-up data on the Crib-o-grain hearing screening program at Stanford University Medical Center. Improvements in test procedure and scoring have resulted in a current detection rate of 93%.
mesh_terms: D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008403:Mass Screening