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AABR As a Quality Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program Component

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1.  Loss to Follow Up can be minimized by having multiple contact numbers for the family setting rescreen appointments at the time of the inpatient referral giving the parents a referral form all of the above

2.  Barriers to achieving success with UNHS programs may include lack of funding geography and population knowing where to start all of the above

3.  Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD) is not a concern in the well-baby nursery is a condition that may affect NICU and well-babies more common in NICU babies than well-babies both b and c

4.  The first step to ensure a gold standard NBS program is to ensure the screening device has high sensitivity ensure the screening device has high specificity ensure the screening device provides objective PASS REFER results all of the above

5.  A 2015 study by Hall & Swanepoel comparing AABR and OAE newborn hearing screening outcomes found no significant differences AABR was more effective especially with early post birth discharges OAE was more effective even with early post birth discharges OAE was more effective overall