Early Hearing Detection and Intervention-Pediatric Audiology Links to Services EHDI-PALS: Building a National Facility Database

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• Alternative Title:
  Ear Hear
• Personal Author:
  Chung, Winnie ; Beauchaine, Kathryn L. ; Hoffman, Jeff ; Coverstone, Kirsten R. ; Oyler, Anne ; Mason, Craig
• Description:
  Objectives
  
  To create a searchable web-based national audiology facility directory using a standardized survey, so parents and providers could identify which facilities had capacity to provide appropriate services based on child’s age.
  
  Design
  
  An Early Hearing Detection and Intervention-Pediatric Audiology Links to Services expert panel was convened to create a survey to collect audiology facility information. Professional practice documents were reviewed, a survey was designed to collect pertinent test protocols of each audiology facility, and a standard of care template was created to cross-check survey answers. Audiology facility information across the United States was collected and compiled into a directory structured and displayed in an interactive website, ehdipals.org.
  
  Results
  
  Since November 7, 2012, to May 21, 2016, over 1000 facilities have completed the survey and become listed in the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention-Pediatric Audiology Links to Services directory. The site has registered 10,759 unique visitors, 151,981 page views, and 9134 unique searches from consumers. User feedback has been positive overall.
  
  Conclusion
  
  A searchable, web-based facility directory has proven useful to consumers as a tool to help them differentiate whether a facility was set up to test newborns versus young children. Use of a preprogrammed standard of practice template to cross-check survey answers was also shown to be a practical aid.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Access To Information Audiology Child Databases, Factual Delivery Of Health Care Early Diagnosis Early Medical Intervention Health Services Accessibility Hearing Loss Humans Internet Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Source:
  Ear Hear. 38(4):e227-e231.
• Pubmed ID:
  28353523
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5484047
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8be0ca7fa063ad750dda736c4c68c18cef84985dc938eacfa4284f4a30041432
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/46440/cdc_46440_DS1.pdf
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