title: [Compliance with current standards for the early detection of neonatal hearing loss].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assessing compliance with the section "Assessment of hearing" stipulated in the Technical Standard to Detect Alteration in children aged less than 10 years-old in Bogota.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a cross-sectional study which involved reviewing the medical records of all children born between July 1st and December 31st 2010 in two healthcare institutions in Bogota. Records were selected in which any of the following risk factors appeared: neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia involving phototherapy, neonatal exposure to ototoxic substances and/or <1.500 gr low birth weight. It was also ascertained whether children had been referred to an auditory evoked potential test as the prescribed screening test for neonatal hearing, as stipulated in mandatory Colombian technical standards for detecting abnormal growth and developmental in children aged less than ten years-old.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Neither of the two institutions was making the aforementioned referral test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results indicated significant difficulties in adherence to the protocol for the early detection of hearing loss regarding pertinent/current neonatal Colombian regulations.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, alrojasgo@unal.edu.co.
authors.forename: Andrea L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rojas-Godoy
authors.affiliation: Departamento de la Comunicación Humana y sus Desórdenes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, ogomezgo@unal.edu.co.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gómez-Gómez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, farivasm@unal.edu.co.
authors.forename: Fabio A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Rivas-Muñoz
mesh_terms: D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003105:Colombia; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*