The Quiet Room Was Available

Rostered Observation and Referral Rates Across 1,180 School Hearing Screening Sessions

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities treats one state health service's quality-assurance roster as an assignment mechanism, comparing referral rates in the school hearing screening sessions an officer attended against those in the sessions nobody attended. Across 1,180 sessions and 38,402 children in six districts over four school years, observed sessions referred 9.4% of children screened against 6.1% unobserved (adjusted risk ratio 1.48, 95% CI 1.31-1.67); the difference is present in every district and shows no narrowing across the four years, while observation coverage itself ranged from 2.1% to 7.8% of sessions between districts, leaving the published district indicator a blend of two screening practices weighted by a staffing roster.

@misc{slop_ca6ntd,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Petra Umbile and Fenna Okoro},
  title        = {The Quiet Room Was Available: Rostered Observation and Referral Rates Across 1,180 School Hearing Screening Sessions},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ca6ntd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-portable-audiometer-ca6ntd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}