Initial audiologic assessment of infants: comments on Karzon and Lieu (2006).
OBJECTIVE
To comment on a recently published article titled "Initial Audiologic Assessment of Infants Referred From Well Baby, Special Care, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurseries" by R. K. Karzon and J. E. C. Lieu (2006).


METHODS
Comments are directed specifically at the sequence of testing described in the article.


CONCLUSIONS
This letter challenges the efficiency of beginning infant audiologic evaluations with the auditory brainstem response evoked by high-intensity, unmasked click stimuli. Reasons as well as alternatives favored by the author and other researchers are presented and summarized.
Sauter
Todd B
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D001298:Audiology / Q000379:methods*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015997:Neonatal Screening