RT Journal
A1 Lahr MB
T1 UNiversal newborn hearing screening
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2001
FD March 1
VO 155
IS 3
SP 421
OP 422
DO 10.1001/archpedi.155.3.417
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.155.3.417
AB 
Permanent congenital hearing loss is arguably the most common serious congenital anomaly. Strategies other than UNHS fail to identify sufficient proportions of affected children in a timely manner. Targeted high-risk screening can at best identify 59% of children with PCHL.1 Most studies report that fewer than 50% of children with hearing loss have identifiable risk factors.2- 7 In practice, targeted screening programs have done even more poorly,8 which has been our experience in Oregon.