Improvement in Loss to Follow-up of Newborn Hearing Screening: A lesson from Louisiana Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program

Authors

  • Xiaoling Ye
  • Tri Tran Louisiana DHH OPH CSHS Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program , new orleans, LA, United States; LSUHSC School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, new orleans, LA, United States
  • Mary Jo Smith Louisiana DHH OPH CSHS Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program , new orleans, LA, United States
  • Jeanette Webb Louisiana DHH OPH CSHS Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program , new orleans, LA, United States
  • Terri Mohren Louisiana DHH OPH CSHS Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program , new orleans, LA, United States
  • Melinda Peat Louisiana DHH OPH CSHS Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program , new orleans, LA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5115

Abstract

The study included 24,516 newborns who were born between 2007 and 2011 in Louisiana and failed initial hearing screening tests prior to hospital discharge. Unadjusted and adjusted log-linear models were conducted to estimate crude and adjusted annual percent change of rates in loss to follow-up. Besides trends analyzed from 2004 to 2011 in all races, trends were analyzed by race/ethnicity and time periods before and after 2007. Overall, the rate of loss to follow-up was around 50% from 2004 to 2006. It dropped to about 35% in 2007 and kept stable until 2010, and then dropped to 27% in 2011.

Author Biography

Xiaoling Ye

Xiaoling Ye Master of Public Health Candidate, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Ye, X., Tran, T., Smith, M. J., Webb, J., Mohren, T., & Peat, M. (2014). Improvement in Loss to Follow-up of Newborn Hearing Screening: A lesson from Louisiana Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5115

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