18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
3/05/2019 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Capturing Hearing Results among Audiologists: Evaluating the Acceptability and Usability of Reporting to EHDI-IS | Florence
Capturing Hearing Results among Audiologists: Evaluating the Acceptability and Usability of Reporting to EHDI-IS
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Information System (EHDI-IS) is a powerful tool that supports EHDI programs to ensure that all deaf and hard of hearing infants and young children are identified early and receive intervention services. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently funds 42 state EHDI programs to enhance their EHDI-IS and to improve documentation of hearing diagnostic testing for infants who do not pass the newborn hearing screening. In some states, audiologists may log onto the reporting module within the EHDI-IS to report the hearing results. To support continuous program improvement, states are conducting evaluation of the acceptability of the EHDI-IS and the reporting module among audiologists. Acceptability reflects the willingness of audiologists and affiliated facilities (audiology clinics) to input hearing results into the state EHDI-IS. The purpose of the evaluation is to assist program personnel to:
1) Assess how many audiologists in each state are currently reporting hearing data.
2) Identify obstacles audiologists face around reporting hearing data to the EHDI-IS.
3) Understand the usability of the reporting module and paper reporting form for audiologists.
4) Apply evaluation findings to improve audiologists’ reporting process.
5) Strengthen collaborations with key stakeholders.
A large number of awardees used a mix method evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative data. Extracting information from their EHDI-IS, documents review, online surveys and focus groups are among the most common methods for data collection. In this presentation, CDC will summarize findings and discuss lessons learned, as well as provide recommendations that may help improve audiologists’ reporting to the state EHDI program.
- 1) To describe the acceptability of the EHDI-IS and its provider-reporting module among audiologists.
- 2) To describe the most common barriers preventing audiologists from reporting hearing evaluation data to state EHDI programs
- 3) To identify ways to increase awareness among audiologists about the importance of documenting and communicating hearing evaluation results to state EHDI programs
Presentation:
18878_10380Maria CSánchez.pdf
Handouts:
18878_10380Maria CSánchez_x.docx
Transcripts:
18878_10380WinnieChung.docx
Presenters/Authors
Winnie Chung
(), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, wchung@cdc.gov;
Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Suhana Ema
(), CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, vns0@cdc.gov;
Suhana Ema serves as an epidemiologist with the CDC EHDI Team. She is responsible for analyzing EHDI data and disseminating findings with jurisdictional EHDI programs and partners. She also provides technical assistance to jurisdictional EHDI programs to improve their program and tracking and surveillance work. She holds Master of Public Health degree from the University of Georgia. Suhana was born with severe to profound hearing loss on both ears and wears hearing aids. She is fluent in American Sign Language and lipreads well.
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Maria C. Sánchez
(), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, msanchez8@cdc.gov;
María Sánchez is a program evaluator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities in the Division of Human Development and Disability. She was an Asthma Project Evaluator for the Puerto Rico Department of Health, Maternal and Child Health Services and prior to that a Research Assistant and Evaluator for the University of Puerto Rico, Center for Evaluation and Sociomedical Research. She obtained her Master of Science in Health Systems Research and Evaluation from the University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health and an Optometry degree from the Universidad Católica de la Salle in Bogotá, Colombia.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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