EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
Do They Come Back?
Infants hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at increased risk for congenital, progressive and/or late-onset hearing loss. Newborn hearing screening is essential in identifying congenital hearing loss, but it may not detect slight to mild hearing loss and will not identify late-onset hearing loss. The Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) newborn hearing screening program recommends that infants who passed the newborn hearing screen, but have a history of NICU admission have an audiologic evaluation by 6-12 months of age.
The goal of this quality improvement project is to identify the proportion of infants from the OHSU NICU that received an audiologic evaluation after passing the newborn hearing screen. Hearing screening and follow-up records will be reviewed from a cohort of 433 children born between June 2018 to June 2019. Analysis will describe the timeline of follow-up and identify variables associated with follow-up including gestational age, length of NICU stay, genetic co-occurrences, anoxia/hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), distance from OHSU and ability to coordinate with other medical appointments. This project will establish a basis of understanding for LTF for infants in the NICU and propel future improvement in quality of care.
- Identify the proportion of NICU babies that passed their newborn hearing screenings and had follow- up with audiology after discharge
- Identify variables that may impact the likelihood of follow up
- Analyze follow-up timeline for babies in the NICU who initially pass their newborn hearing screen
Poster:
23278_13740BriannaRalston.pdf
Presenter: Shannon Nichols
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Heather Durham is a Pediatric Audiologist, Director of Pediatric Audiology, and Newborn Hearing Screening Coordinator for the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. She has worked closely with the Oregon EHDI program for a number of years and shares the goals and vision of increased and improved reporting, tracking and analysis of data for the state of Oregon. In her free time, she enjoys a good murder mystery and a microbrew.
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