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Neonatal hearing loss

Africa

• WHO African Region
  • Status report on ear and hearing care in the WHO African Region [2024]
  • Ear Health

Albania

• Ear and Hearing
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Neonatal Hearing Screening Programs: A Micro-Simulation Modeling Analysis [2021]

• International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
  • Implementation of a neonatal hearing screening programme in three provinces in Albania [2020]

Asia

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programmes for infants and young children in low-income and middle-income countries in Asia: a systematic review [2023]

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Environmental scan and assessment of the feasibility of developing a national neonatal hearing screening data collection [2023]

• Department of Health and Aged Care
  • National Framework for Neonatal Hearing Screening [2013]

• Ear and Hearing
  • An Economic Evaluation of Australia's Newborn Hearing Screening Program: A Within-Study Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [2022]

Belgium

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Newborn hearing screening programme in Belgium: a consensus recommendation on risk factors [2015]

Brazil

• Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
  • Task force Guideline of Brazilian Society of Otology - hearing loss in children - Part II - Treatment [2023]
  • Task force Guideline of Brazilian Society of Otology - hearing loss in children - Part I - Evaluation [2023]
  • Overview of newborn hearing screening programs in Brazilian maternity hospitals [2014]

• CoDAS
  • Neonatal Hearing Screening: protocols, obstacles and perspectives of speech therapists in Brazil - 10 years of Brazilian Federal Law 12,303/2010 [2022]
  • Newborn Hearing Screening: association between coverage, and the availability of speech therapists and equipment in Brazil [2021]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Universal newborn hearing screening [2011]

China

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of neonatal hearing screening program in China: should universal screening be prioritized? [2012]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Newborn hearing screening coverage and detection rates of hearing impairment across China from 2008-2016 [2020]

Europe

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Hearing screening

Germany

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • The Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in Germany [2018]

Ghana

• Public Health Genomics
  • Screening for GJB2-R143W-Associated Hearing Impairment: Implications for Health Policy and Practice in Ghana [2020]

India

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics on Newborn Hearing Screening [2017]

• Indian Journal of Community Medicine
  • Challenges and Solutions in Implementing Hearing Screening Program in India [2019]

International

• BMC Pediatrics
  • A systematic review of newborn and childhood hearing screening around the world: comparison and quality assessment of guidelines [2022]

• Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
  • Methodological quality of clinical guidelines for universal newborn hearing screening [2021]

• European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases
  • International consensus (ICON) on audiological assessment of hearing loss in children [2018]

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening Facing Globally Growing Numbers of People Suffering from Disabling Hearing Loss [2019]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Newborn Hearing Screening Benefits Children, But Global Disparities Persist [2022]

Israel

• Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Assessing and monitoring the impact of the national newborn hearing screening program in Israel [2019]

Italy

• Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica
  • Improving regional universal newborn hearing screening programmes in Italy [2016]
  • Childhood hearing surveillance activity in Italy: preliminary recommendations [2016]

• Annali di Igiene
  • Hearing and Vision Screening Program for newborns in Italy [2021]

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Newborn hearing screening protocol in Tuscany region [2017]

Japan

• Cochlear Implants International
  • New expectations: Pediatric cochlear implantation in Japan [2013]

Malawi

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Setting up a Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in a Low-Income Country: Initial Findings from Malawi [2017]

Mexico

• Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México
  • Congenital hearing loss: a literature review of the genetic etiology in a Mexican population [2022]

Netherlands

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • From Neonatal Hearing Screening to Intervention: Results of the Dutch Program for Neonatal Hearing Screening in Well Babies [2018]

New Zealand

• National Screening Unit
  • Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme

• Starship
  • Hearing Loss [2013]

Nordic countries

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention in Children with Unilateral Hearing Impairment: Clinical Practices in Three Nordic Countries [2021]

Pakistan

• Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
  • Hospital and health administrator level barriers and priorities for National Neonatal Hearing Screening in Pakistan: A thematic analysis [2020]
  • Multi-level barriers & priorities accorded by policy makers for Neonatal Hearing Screening (NHS) in Pakistan: A thematic analysis [2019]

Poland

• PLoS ONE
  • Hearing impairment in premature newborns—Analysis based on the national hearing screening database in Poland [2017]

• Polish Journal of Otolaryngology
  • Summary of the Polish Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Program - 2021 yearly review [2023]
  • The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the functioning of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program in Poland [2022]
  • Follow-up on the diagnostic level of children covered by the Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Program in Poland, divided into voivodships [2019]

Republic of Korea

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Analysis of Newborn Hearing Screening Results in South Korea after National Health Insurance Coverage: A Nationwide Population-Based Study [2022]

• International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
  • Analysis of the effectiveness of coupon-mediated newborn hearing screening program through comparison of two government-funded pilot projects in South Korea [2020]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Status of the Newborn Hearing Screening in the 4-Months Age National Infant Health Checkup in Korea: A Nationwide Population-Based Study [2023]
  • Results of a Government-supported Newborn Hearing Screening Pilot Project in the 17 Cities and Provinces from 2014 to 2018 in Korea [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Comparison of newborn hearing screening results between well babies and neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for more than 5 days: Analysis based on the national database in Korea for 9 years [2020]

• Scientific Reports
  • Status of early hearing detection and intervention in South Korea: a nationwide population-based study of national infant health checkup [2020]

Saudi Arabia

• PLoS ONE
  • Knowledge, attitude and management of hearing screening in children among family physicians in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [2021]

Singapore

• Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
  • Universal newborn hearing screening in Singapore: the need, implementation and challenges [2005]

Slovenia

• Medicina
  • The Importance of Early Genetic Diagnostics of Hearing Loss in Children [2020]

South Africa

• BMC Pediatrics
  • The HI HOPES data set of deaf children under the age of 6 in South Africa: maternal suspicion, age of identification and newborn hearing screening [2016]

• Health Professions Council of South Africa
  • Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) [2018]

United Kingdom

• Cochlear Implants International
  • Cochlear implants in the United Kingdom: Awareness and utilization [2013]

• HSC Public Health Agency
  • Age Appropriate Hearing Assessment Diagnostic Testing Guidance [2015]
  • Newborn Hearing Screening in Northern Ireland Annual Reports

• International Journal of Audiology
  • The future role of genetic screening to detect newborns at risk of childhood-onset hearing loss [2013]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Genedrive MT-RNR1 ID Kit for detecting a genetic variant to guide antibiotic use and prevent hearing loss in babies: early value assessment [2023]

• NHS England
  • Newborn hearing screening programme: standards
  • Newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) operational guidance
  • Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) standards reports

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Newborn hearing screening pathway requirements specification
  • NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP)

• Public Health England
  • Newborn hearing screening: supporting publications
  • Newborn hearing screening: care pathways

• Public Health Wales
  • Newborn Hearing Screening Wales

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Hearing (newborn)

United States

• American Academy of Audiology
  • Year 2019 Position Statement: Principles and Guidelines for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs [2019]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Hearing Assessment in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Recommendations Beyond Neonatal Screening [2023]
  • Supplement to the JCIH 2007 Position Statement: Principles and Guidelines for Early Intervention After Confirmation That a Child Is Deaf or Hard of Hearing [2013]

• American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics
  • Clinical evaluation and etiologic diagnosis of hearing loss: A clinical practice resource of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) [2022]
  • American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics guideline for the clinical evaluation and etiologic diagnosis of hearing loss [2014]
  • Genetics Evaluation Guidelines for the Etiologic Diagnosis of Congenital Hearing Loss. Genetic Evaluation of Congenital Hearing Loss Expert Panel. ACMG statement [2002]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • CDC Grand Rounds: Newborn Screening for Hearing Loss and Critical Congenital Heart Disease [2017]
  • Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Among Infants — Hearing Screening and Follow-up Survey, United States, 2005–2006 and 2009–2010 [2014]
  • Hearing Loss in Children

• Facial Plastic Surgery
  • Contemporary Management of Microtia [2022]

• Genetics in Medicine
  • A proposal for comprehensive newborn hearing screening to improve identification of deaf and hard-of-hearing children [2019]

• International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • What Contribution Did Economic Evidence Make to the Adoption of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Policies in the United States? [2018]

• JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
  • Parent perception of newborn hearing screening: results of a national survey [2016]

• Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
  • Private Insurance Reimbursements for Newborn Hearing Screening in the United States, 2013–2014 Birth Cohort [2020]
  • Evaluating Data Quality of Newborn Hearing Screening [2020]

• Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
  • Receipt and Timeliness of Newborn Hearing Screening and Diagnostic Services Among Babies Born in 2017 in 9 States [2022]

• Precision Clinical Medicine
  • Future directions for screening and treatment in congenital hearing loss [2020]

Very highly-developed countries

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing loss detected at the universal newborn hearing screen: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • World report on hearing [2021]
  • Hearing screening: considerations for implementation [2021]
  • Ear and hearing care: situation analysis tool [2019]
  • Ear and hearing care: planning and monitoring of national strategies [2019]
  • Ear and hearing care: indicators for monitoring provision of services [2019]
  • Addressing the rising prevalence of hearing loss [2018]
  • Prevention of deafness and hearing loss: report by the Secretariat [2017]
  • Global costs of unaddressed hearing loss and cost-effectiveness of interventions: a WHO report, 2017 [2017]
  • Childhood hearing loss: strategies for prevention and care [2016]
  • Multi-country assessment of national capacity to provide hearing care [2013]
  • Community-based rehabilitation: promoting ear and hearing care through CBR [2012]
  • Newborn and infant hearing screening: current issues and guiding principles for action [2010]
  • Primary ear and hearing care training resource [2006]
  • Integrating ear and hearing care into health systems
  • Hearing loss

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