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ArticleInternational journal of neonatal screening2018

What Contribution Did Economic Evidence Make to the Adoption of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Policies in the United States?

Scott D Grosse, Craig A Mason, Marcus Gaffney, Vickie Thomson, Karl R White

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Article in International journal of neonatal screening, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Scott D GrosseNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Mail Stop E-87, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA; MGaffney@cdc.gov.ORCID 0000-0003-1078-6855
Craig A MasonCollege of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, Orono, ME 00469, USA; Craig.Mason@maine.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9690-1692
Marcus GaffneyNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Mail Stop E-87, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA; MGaffney@cdc.gov.
Vickie ThomsonDepartment of Otolaryngology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80045, USA; Vickie.Thomson@ucdenver.edu.
Karl R WhiteNational Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM), Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA; Karl.White@usu.edu.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS), when accompanied by timely access to intervention services, can improve language outcomes for children born deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) and result in economic benefits to society. Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs promote UNHS and using information systems support access to follow-up diagnostic and early intervention services so that infants can be screened no later than 1 month of age, with those who do not pass their screen receiving diagnostic evaluation no later than 3 months of age, and those with diagnosed hearing loss receiving intervention services no later than 6 months of age. In this paper, we first document the rapid roll-out of UNHS/EHDI policies and programs at the national and state/territorial levels in the United States between 1997 and 2005. We then review cost analyses and economic arguments that were made in advancing those policies in the United States. Finally, we examine evidence on language and educational outcomes that pertain to the economic benefits of UNHS/EHDI. In conclusion, although formal cost-effectiveness analyses do not appear to have played a decisive role, informal economic assessments of costs and benefits appear to have contributed to the adoption of UNHS policies in the United States.

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cost analysiscost-effectivenessEHDIhearing screeningneonatal screening

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PMID30123850
PMCPMC6094389

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