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About the National Data
Data
Data Source: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Hearing Screening and Follow-up Survey (EHDI/HSFS), CDC/NCBDDD
Baseline: 95.0 percent of newborns aged 1 month and under were screened for hearing loss in 2017
Target: 97.0 percent
Methodology
Methodology notes
Hearing screening procedures include otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and/or auditory brainstem response (ABR) tests.
History
1. Effect size h=0.1 was chosen to correspond with 10% improvement from a baseline of 50%.