Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Diagnostic in the NICU

Table 5

Infants from the GI and GII, considering the dropout rate in the various stages of NHS and audiological diagnosis.

Stages	Group I		Group II		𝑃 value*
	𝑛	%	𝑛	%
NHS-first stage	74/488	15.2%	92/441	20.9%	0.4012
NHS-retest	—	—	9/441	2.04%
Diagnosis	32/488	6.55%	6/441	1.360%
Total	106/488	21.7%	106/441	24.03%

∗Chi-square test.