Newborn hearing screening

Context All newborn infants (USPSTF 2008 hearing screening recommendation)

Recipient

Newborn

Population

All newborn infants, as the topic title says. The topic page gives no other limits.

Care setting

Not stated in the source.

Geography

United States, as the issuer is the US Preventive Services Task Force; the page names no jurisdiction.

Life stage

Newborn period

Gestational age

Not reported

Postnatal age

Not reported

Follow-up

Not applicable: a topic status notice.

• Regulatory Guidance Certainty not assessed

  The US Preventive Services Task Force website lists its topic Hearing Loss in Newborns: Screening as inactive. The Task Force decided not to review the evidence and update its recommendations for this topic, and its notice says the previous evidence review and recommendation may contain information that is outdated.

  Applies to Newborn

  • All newborn infants, as the topic title says. The topic page gives no other limits.
  • Not stated in the source.
  • United States, as the issuer is the US Preventive Services Task Force; the page names no jurisdiction.
  • Newborn period
  • Gestational age Not reported
  • Postnatal age Not reported

  Follow-up Not applicable: a topic status notice.

  Certainty method

  Not assessed

  Limitations

  The page states the status of the topic and not the content of the 2008 recommendation, which is not recorded here because the 2008 statement was published in Pediatrics, an AAP journal, and AAP-published content is identity-only in this atlas. The page does not give the date of the inactive decision.

  Last checked

  Not recorded

  Next evidence check due

  Not scheduled

  Sources and citations (1)

  1. Supports Hearing Loss in Newborns: Screening (USPSTF topic page, inactive)

     Webpage · U.S. Preventive Services Task Force · Edition Topic page as fetched on 2026-10-14 (mh-uspstf-hearing-newborns.html). The page is marked Inactive and carries a notice that the Task Force decided not to review the evidence and update this topic.

     Locator

     Page heading and inactive notice, sentences 1 and 2

     How it applies

     The Task Force marks the topic inactive.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-14T18:26:45Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Current

     Snapshot hash

     e1728947baecfa0dc7043b286e2b03e04ebb224d9c9bbe1b7c501e78f6e0dfb9

     Reuse basis

     The USPSTF copyright notice (current as of September 2017, fetched as mh-uspstf-copyright.html, sha256 e2ace5978f116b2303c7e1c48f9d1e8eb4375a43cbc1cf42a17000e13ae683e1) lets the public reproduce and quote USPSTF work without change, with the USPSTF web page cited as the source, and bars sale or use in a profit-making venture. Only two short sentences are quoted. The page bytes are not committed.