Results of a Government-supported Newborn Hearing Screening Pilot Project in the 17 Cities and Provinces from 2014 to 2018 in Korea.

Background: The aim of this study was to present and analyze, for the first time, the results of a government-supported nationwide newborn hearing screening (NHS) pilot project in the 17 major cities and provinces of Korea.

Methods: We analyzed a nationwide NHS database of 344,955 newborns in the pilot project from 2014 to 2018. The government supported the cost of one NHS and one diagnostic auditory brainstem response (ABR) test.

Analysis of the effectiveness of coupon-mediated newborn hearing screening program through comparison of two government-funded pilot projects in South Korea.

Objective: The aims of this study are to compare the results of two government-funded newborn hearing screening (NHS) pilot programs and evaluate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the coupon-mediated NHS program in Korea.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the database of the NHS center of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) from 2007 to 2013. Before the NHS was covered by national health insurance in 2018, the MHW conducted two types of NHS pilot programs.

Referral rates for newborn hearing screening based on the test time.

Objectives: To suggest the optimal timing for newborn hearing screening to obtain an ideal and stable referral rate in well babies and in babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICU).

Methods: This study analyzed nationwide hearing screening data of 71,596 newborns in the low-income families who received support from the government in 2017. The referral rate for neonatal hearing screening, based on the period from birth to screening, was compared in well babies (n = 68,206) who were born healthy or hospitalized in the NICU for < 5 days and moved to a well-baby nursery and babies (n = 3,390) who were in the NICU for ≥ 5 days.

Current status of newborn hearing screening in low-income families in the southeastern region of Korea.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the current status and problems of hearing screening tests for newborns in low-income families in the southeastern Korea.

Methods: This study analyzed data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare's project on the early detection of hearing loss in newborns in low-income families in the southeastern Korea (2011-2015).

Results: The referral rate was 1.

Clinical manifestation and prognosis of vestibular migraine according to the vestibular function test results.

Background And Objectives: ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS REPORTS, PATIENTS WITH VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE (VM) DISPLAY VARIABLE RESULTS FROM VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS (VFT): central, peripheral, or normal. The aim of this study was to classify the VM patients into the three groups according to interictal VFT findings (central, peripheral or normal) and to clarify the relationship between VFT results and the clinical manifestations and prognosis in each group.

Subjects And Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 81 patients diagnosed as VM using the criteria of Neuhauser, et al.

Characterizing distortion-product otoacoustic emission components across four species.

Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) were measured as level/phase (L/P) maps in humans, rabbits, chinchillas, and rats with and without an interference tone (IT) placed either near the 2f(1)-f(2) DPOAE frequency place (f(dp)) or at one-third of an octave above the f(2) primary tone (1/3-oct IT). Vector differences between with and without IT conditions were computed to derive a residual composed of the DPOAE components removed by the IT. In humans, a DPOAE component could be extracted with the expected steep phase gradient indicative of reflection emissions by ITs near f(dp).

Effect of ciprofloxacin/dexamethasone versus ciprofloxacin/hydrocortisone on lipopolysaccharide-induced experimental otitis media.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of topical ciprofloxacin/dexamethasone versus topical ciprofloxacin/hydrocortisone on the outcome of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)–induced otitis media with effusion in chinchillas.

Study Design: A randomized experimental animal study.

Setting: Jerry L.

Effect of topical glucocorticoid treatment in chinchilla model of lipopolysaccharide induced otitis media with effusion.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of topical treatment with three glucocorticoids in lipopolysaccharide induced otitis media with effusion (OME).

Methods: Chinchillas were divided into seven treatment groups consisting of vehicle and three glucocorticoids: dexamethasone sodium phosphate (DSP), fluticasone propionate (FP), and hydrocortisone, each at concentrations of 0.1% and 1.