Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment in the United Kingdom and implications for universal neonatal hearing screening: questionnaire based ascertainment study.

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Published in BMJ on September 08, 2001

Authors

H M Fortnum1, A Q Summerfield, D H Marshall, A C Davis, J M Bamford

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD. hf@ihr.mrc.ac.uk

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