19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
Surveillance Depends on Medical Providers Reporting:
Medical providers, including audiologists, serve an essential role in public health surveillance by helping to ensure patients receive recommended services, such as screenings and follow-up tests. However, patient care and routine monitoring can be hampered by a lack of communication and coordination between medical providers and public health professionals.
In 2017, thirty-nine State EHDI programs, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conducted a process evaluation of their EHDI Information System (EHDI-IS). The purpose of the evaluation was to better understand:
1- The willingness of audiologists to report diagnostic results to the EHDI-IS
2- The barriers preventing them from routinely reporting diagnostic hearing results; and
3- The extent to which the data system or paper form is user-friendly for audiologists
Results and opportunities for improvement:
The top three barriers among audiologists in reporting results are: technical issues, lack of time, and lack of knowledge on reporting requirements. In addition a number of states EHDI programs reported challenges to obtain accurate counts of pediatric audiologists. Strategic actions are needed among EHDI programs to ensure complete reporting from audiologists: (e.g., collaborate with local or state audiology groups and license organizations to increase the identification of pediatric audiologists; improve the relationships with audiologists and increase the awareness about the importance of reporting; improve the usability of the reporting system for users, to simplify and to reduce the burden in reporting; and revise reporting protocols to improve the clarity on the types of information the EHDI program is interested in knowing
- To describe a process evaluation conducted by 39 State EHDI programs, funded by CDC, related to Capturing Hearing Results among audiologist
- To describe the most common barriers preventing audiologists from reporting hearing evaluation data to state EHDI programs.
- To describe opportunities for improvements in capturing hearing diagnostic results
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Presenter: Maria C. Sánchez
María Sánchez is a program evaluator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities in the Division of Human Development and Disability. She was an Asthma Project Evaluator for the Puerto Rico Department of Health, Maternal and Child Health Services and prior to that a Research Assistant and Evaluator for the University of Puerto Rico, Center for Evaluation and Sociomedical Research. She obtained her Master of Science in Health Systems Research and Evaluation from the University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health and an Optometry degree from the Universidad Católica de la Salle in Bogotá, Colombia.
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