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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Feb 28;170(5):1430–1441. doi: 10.1002/ohn.670

Table 3.

Comparison of infants undergoing 3 different approaches before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Numbers are representing either average number of patients or percentage of patients (as indicated) as reported every other month.

Variable Pre (N=117) Post (N=226) p-value*

Hearing Targeted: Number of patients with failed NBHS 34 (32.1) 36 (37.1) 0.63
Hearing Targeted: Number of patients tested 26.6 (28.5) 29.7 (34.3) 0.39
Hearing Targeted: Percent of failed NBHS who are tested 76.8% (22.5%) 76.3% (25.5%) 0.87
Hearing Targeted: Number of patients CMV Positive 0.4 (0.9) 0.4 (0.9) 0.98
Hearing Targeted: Percent of Tested Who Are Positive 3.9% (13.5%) 5.7% (19.7%) 0.35
Universal: Number Tested 762.3 (126.3) 387 (265.7) 0.005
Universal: CMV Positive 4.5 (1.8) 1 (0.9) 0.003
Universal: Percent of tested who are positive 0.6% (0.3%) 0.3% (0.3%) 0.072
Dry Blood Spot: Total number tested 8.7 (10.9) 7.6 (8.7) 0.70
Dry Blood Spot: Total number of CMV Positive 0.6 (1.2) 0.6 (1.1) 0.93
Dry Blood Spot: Percent of tested who are positive 8.7% (22.8%) 13.7% (31.7%) 0.47
*

All tests are t-test.

All summaries are mean (standard deviation).