# USPSTF 2008: universal screening for hearing loss in newborns

Guideline · id `maternal:guideline-uspstf-2008-newborn-hearing` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `c7fb95f1d15a7d13` (public)

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## In plain language

A 2008 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement on screening newborns for hearing loss. The Task Force now lists the topic as inactive. This atlas lists the statement as a reference only and does not repeat its content.

## Technical summary

Pediatrics 2008, USPSTF recommendation statement (title: Universal screening for hearing loss in newborns: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement). The statement was published in Pediatrics, whose publisher’s content is identity-only in this atlas, so its text is not read here and no recommendation is recorded. Status is inactive: the USPSTF page heading reads Inactive, and its notice says the Task Force decided not to review the evidence and update this topic and that the previous recommendation may contain outdated information. Inactive is not withdrawn (the issuer pulled it) or superseded. No recommendation decision is recorded, because the grade and wording of the 2008 statement appear only in the identity-only source. The issuer is the shared USPSTF record in core.

## Connected pages

- Issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (`core:uspstf`)

## Provenance

Content hash: c2813323ff8bdb214028ea5e3c0f6163a37a4258fd34cff3f1dcf6eec3da247e
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded