ABSTRACT
Purpose:
to compare two newborn hearing screening protocols with benchmarks of passes and failure distinct.
Methods:
a retrospective study. It was evaluated the records of 312 infants (s) and babies of both sexes and up to 90 days after birth in September 2013 to September 2014 in the Neonatal Hearing Screening Service of Clinical Speech and Hearing Division School of the origin instituition. TEOAE were analyzed in two different benchmarks and they were compared.
Results:
of the 312 patients evaluated, there was a greater number of male patients (53.85%), the majority of patients aged 30 days or less (65.06%) and only 6.09% had more than 60 days. The proportion of observed agreement was 43.91%, that is, both methods coincide in 43.91% of the results and the Kappa index was 0.0628, with a confidence interval of 95% (0.03; 0.0942) and 0.001 statistical significance (p = 0.001). It is observed that the value of Kappa is very low, considering that the perfect agreement is 1.00.
Conclusion:
there was no statistical correlation between the protocols analyzed, there were more failures in the NHS by step benchmark protocol 1.
Keywords:
Screening; Optoacoustic Emissions; Newborn
