TY - JOUR AU - Qi, Beier AU - Cheng, Xiaohua AU - En, Hui AU - Liu, Bo AU - Peng, Shichun AU - Zhen, Yong AU - Cai, Zhenghua AU - Huang, Lihui AU - Zhang, Luo AU - Han, Demin PY - 2013 DA - 2013/08/08 TI - Assessment of the feasibility and coverage of a modified universal hearing screening protocol for use with newborn babies of migrant workers in Beijing JO - BMC Pediatrics SP - 116 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Although migrant workers account for the majority of newborns in Beijing, their children are less likely to undergo appropriate universal newborn hearing screening/rescreening (UNHS) than newborns of local non-migrant residents. We hypothesised that this was at least in part due to the inadequacy of the UNHS protocol currently employed for newborn babies, and therefore aimed to modify the protocol to specifically reflect the needs of the migrant population. SN - 1471-2431 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-116 DO - 10.1186/1471-2431-13-116 ID - Qi2013 ER -