NCT00753194

False Positive Results in Newborn Hearing Screening

False-Positive Results in Newborn Hearing Screening: Possible Causes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Hours – 48 Hours
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the rate of false-positive results in Newborn Universal Hearing Screening Programs and it´s possible causes.

Detailed description

False-positive results in Newborn Hearing Screening(NHS) leads to unnecessary parents anxiety and increase the cost of the procedure before hospital discharge. Getting to know the possible causes will lead to solutions to decrease the number of normal hearing babies that fail NHS with Otoacoustic Emissions.

Conditions

• Deafness

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-03-01
• Primary completion: 2006-03-01
• Completion: 2007-01-01
• First posted: 2008-09-16
• Last updated: 2008-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil