Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Diagnostic in the NICU

Table 4

Infants from the GI and GII, which held the NHS first test considering the time in days after birth and postconceptual age, in weeks, in which hearing screening was applied and the result passed and failed.

Hearing screening	GI					GII
	Referral		Pass		𝑃 value	Referral		Pass		𝑃 value
	𝑛	%	𝑛	%		𝑛	%	𝑛	%
Time after birth (days)					0.1805					<0.0001
<30	49	63.6	198	59.1		28	59.6	187	65.6
≥30 a < 60	10	13.0	74	22.1		0	0.0	52	18.2
≥60	18	23.4	63	18.8		19	40.4	46	16.1
Postconceptual age					0.1713*					0.7343*
<30	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0.0	1	0.4
≤30 a < 34	0	0.0	1	0.3		0	0.0	8	2.8
≤34 a < 37	19	24.7	92	27.5		9	19.1	95	33.3
≥37	58	75.3	242	72.2		38	80.9	181	63.5

∗Chi-square test/Fisher exact test.