| Title: |
'Reducing Loss to Follow-up by Meeting Family Needs' |
| Track: |
5-Follow-up, Tracking, and Data Management
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| Audience: |
Primary Audience:
Audiologist
Secondary Audience:
State Health Department
Tertiary Audeince:
Hospital/Birthing Center<
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| Keyword(s): |
Loss to Follow-up, Attrition, Monitoring |
| Learning Objectives: |
Describe statistics for loss to follow-up in EHDI programs.
Describe components of a subject/patient retention plan.
Help parents become active members of an EHDI Program. |
Abstract: |
Loss to follow-up continues to be a significant problem for newborn hearing screening programs and delays in follow-up degrade the quality of services offered and the outcomes achieved for children with hearing loss. Attrition rates as high as 60% between the initial referral and the diagnostic evaluation are not uncommon. Insight from family involvement, audiological assessment, and intervention with children with hearing loss who were involved in long-term longitufinal investigation spannig over 20 years will be summarized. Suggestions and techniques for maintaining parent/child/subject involvement will be provided. Additionally, suggestions and recommendations for development of a retention plan and a patient database will be discussed. Further, ideas for helping parents become members of the diagnostic/intervention collaboration will be explored. |
| Presentation(s): |
Not Available
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| Handouts: |
Not Available
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