relation: http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/10038/
title: Inventory of current EU paediatric vision and hearing screening programmes
creator:  Sloot Frea
creator:  Hoeve Hans L. J.
creator:  de Kroon Marlou L. A.
creator:  Goedegebure André
creator:  Carlton Jill
creator:  Griffiths Helen J.
creator:  Simonsz Huibert J.
creator:  EUS€REEN study group
creator:  Facskó Andrea
creator:  Berkes Szilvia
description: OBJECTIVE: To examine the diversity in paediatric vision and hearing screening programmes in Europe. METHODS: Themes for comparison of screening programmes derived from literature were used to compile three questionnaires on vision, hearing, and public health screening. Tests used, professions involved, age, and  frequency of testing seem to influence sensitivity, specificity, and costs most.  Questionnaires were sent to ophthalmologists, orthoptists, otolaryngologists, and audiologists involved in paediatric screening in all EU full-member, candidate, and associate states. Answers were cross-checked. RESULTS: Thirty-nine countries  participated; 35 have a vision screening programme, 33 a nation-wide neonatal hearing screening programme. Visual acuity (VA) is measured in 35 countries, in 71% of these more than once. First measurement of VA varies from three to seven years of age, but is usually before age five. At age three and four, picture charts, including Lea Hyvarinen, are used most; in children over four, Tumbling-E and Snellen. As first hearing screening test, otoacoustic emission is used most in healthy neonates, and auditory brainstem response in premature newborns. The majority of hearing testing programmes are staged; children are referred after 1-4 abnormal tests. Vision screening is performed mostly by paediatricians, ophthalmologists, or nurses. Funding is mostly by health insurance or state. Coverage was reported as >95% in half of countries, but reporting was often not first-hand. CONCLUSION: Largest differences were found in VA charts used (12), professions involved in vision screening (10), number of hearing screening tests  before referral (1-4), and funding sources (8).
date: 2015
type: Folyóiratcikk
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/10038/1/inventory.pdf
identifier:     Sloot Frea;  Hoeve Hans L. J.;  de Kroon Marlou L. A.;  Goedegebure André;  Carlton Jill;  Griffiths Helen J.;  Simonsz Huibert J.;  EUS€REEN study group;  Facskó Andrea;  Berkes Szilvia: Inventory of current EU paediatric vision and hearing screening programmes.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCREENING, 22 (2).  pp. 55-64.  ISSN 0969-1413 (2015)     
identifier: doi:10.1177/0969141315572403
relation: 3033710
language: eng