title: Neonatal hearing screening with transient evoked otoacoustic emissions--retrospective analysis on performance parameters.
abstract: The present paper reports on the implementation of a maternity based neonatal hearing-screening program in a private hospital. A retrospective analysis is performed on the test pass rate, the coverage and the number of children that become lost to follow-up. The data show a steady learning curve with a time course of several years. In the current screening practice, the test pass rate is at 99.0%, the coverage is at 96% (birth rate of 2000 per annum) and almost no babies get lost to follow-up.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Otolaryngology, St. Augustinus Hospital, Antwerp-Wilrijk, Belgium.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Ceulaer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Daemers
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Van Driessche
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yperman
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Govaerts
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000191:economics; D017084:Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous / Q000502:physiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies