Open AccessOutcomes of newborn hearing screening at an academic secondary level hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa
Author(s) -
Jacqueline Kim Bezuidenhout,
Katijah Khoza-Shangase,
Tim De Maayer,
Renate Strehlau
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
south african journal of communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.296
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2225-4765
pISSN - 0379-8046
DOI - 10.4102/sajcd.v68i1.741
Subject(s) - medicine , family medicine , pediatrics
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) issued early hearing detection and intervention guidelines, which has universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) as one of the important goals. Despite established evidence of the importance of UNHS globally, there has been no mandated formalised and standardised implementation as yet in South Africa.