Title |
The cost-effectiveness of tracking newborns with bilateral hearing impairment in Bavaria: a decision-analytic model
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, November 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-418 |
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Authors |
Astrid Langer, Inken Brockow, Uta Nennstiel-Ratzel, Petra Menn |
Abstract |
Although several countries, including Germany, have established newborn hearing screening programmes for early detection and treatment of newborns with hearing impairments, nationwide tracking systems for follow-up of newborns with positive test results until diagnosis of hearing impairment have often not been implemented. However, a recent study on universal newborn hearing screening in Bavaria showed that, in a high proportion of newborns, early diagnosis was only possible with the use of a tracking system. The aim of this study was, therefore, to assess the cost-effectiveness of tracking newborns with bilateral hearing impairment in Bavaria. |
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