Sound-Conduction Effects on DPOAE Screening Outcomes in Newborn Infants: Test Performance of Wideband Acoustic Transfer Functions and 1-kHz Tympanometry

摘要

ObjectiveUniversal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) test outcomes can be influenced by conditions affecting the sound-conduction pathway including ear-canal and/or middle-ear function. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the test performance of wideband (WB) acoustic transfer functions (ATFs) and 1-kHz tympanometry in terms of their ability to predict the status of the sound-conduction pathway for ears that passed or were referred in a UNHS program.