Newborn hearing screening resources on the Internet

Balatsouras, Dimitrios; Korres, Stavros; Kandiloros, Dimitrios; Ferekidis, Eleftherios; Economou, Constantinos

doi:10.1016/S0165-5876(02)00395-6

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Volume 67, Issue 4 , Pages 333-340, April 2003

Newborn hearing screening resources on the Internet

Dimitrios Balatsouras
- ENT Department of Tzanion General Hospital, Zanni & Afentouli, 18536 Piraeus, Greece
- Corresponding author. Present address: 23 Achaion Str., Agia Paraskevi, 15343 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +30-10-600-4683; fax: +30-10-459-2671
Stavros Korres
- ENT Department of Athens National University, Ippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Present address: 47-49 Promitheos Str., Ekali, 14576 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +32-107241249; fax: +32-108136971.
Dimitrios Kandiloros
- ENT Department of Athens National University, Ippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Present address: Ippokration University Hospital-114 Vas. Sofias Av., 11528 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +32-108081914; fax: +32-108019466.
Eleftherios Ferekidis
- ENT Department of Athens National University, Ippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Present address: Ippokration University Hospital-114 Vas. Sofias Av., 11528 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +32-107483770; fax: +32-108019466.
Constantinos Economou
- ENT Department of Tzanion General Hospital, Zanni & Afentouli, 18536 Piraeus, Greece
- Present address: 32 Dimitrakopoulou, 16673 Voula, Greece. Tel.: +32-104592215; fax: +32-109658226.

Received 8 August 2002; accepted 16 November 2002.

Abstract

Starting as a small military and academic network, the Internet has gradually evolved into a worldwide web, which connects most local networks as well as millions of personal computers from individual users. It is of interest to the medical practitioner, that ever more biomedical resources are becoming available on-line to assist in clinical medicine, research and education. In this paper a detailed list of the World Wide Web sites accessible through the Internet is provided, in which data about newborn hearing screening may be found. Web resources of medical equipment and suppliers and sites including otoacoustic emissions topics, are presented as well. This review is intended to present the wealth of the accessible information on the Internet and to promote further presentation on the web of any available hearing screening data from hospitals and Audiology Departments in which such programs are implemented.

Keywords: Internet, Computer communication networks, Medical informatics, Neonatal screening, Otoacoustic emissions