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Implementing Infant Hearing Screening At Maternal And Child Health Clinics: Context And Interactional Processes, De Wet Swanepoel, René Hugo, Brenda Louw
Implementing Infant Hearing Screening At Maternal And Child Health Clinics: Context And Interactional Processes, De Wet Swanepoel, René Hugo, Brenda Louw
Brenda Louw
Infant hearing screening has become increasingly widespread as research evidence a dramatic benefit when early
identification of hearing loss occurs before six-months of age. The Health Professions Council of South Africa
(HPCSA) has recently published a hearing screening position statement recommending infant hearing screening in three contexts: the well-baby nursery, at discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and at Maternal and Child Health (MCH) clinics. The well-baby nursery and NICUs are established and internationally recognised screening contexts abundantly reported on whilst MCH clinics have not been investigated as screening contexts previously. The objective of this study was therefore …