Universal screening for infant hearing impairment: not simple, not risk-free, not necessarily beneficial, and not presently justified.
Division of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Bill Wilkerson Center, Nashville, TN 37212.
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D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response; D015975:Consensus Development Conferences, NIH as Topic; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006291:Health Policy; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000191:economics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014481:United States