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• VALERIANA DE CASTRO GUIMARAES - Guimarães, V.C. - GOIANIA, GOIAS - HOSPITAL DAS CLINICAS/UFG - <valerianacastroguimaraes@gmail.com>

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Abstract
The study has as purpose to examine the bibliographic production that investigates the use of the test of otoacustic emissions in newborn babies done in hospitals. It gives emphasis in the approval of the mentioned article next in the Research Ethics Committee. The method consists of bibliographic revision of national articles published in Brazilian magazines. The search was realized in databases of the virtual library in health (http://www.bireme.br) and the search site (http://www.google.com.br), considering the period of 2004 to 2006. The key words used were: otoacustic emissions or equivalent expressions in newborn babies in hospitals. Another source was the manual search in reference lists of the selected articles. After the application of the inclusion rules, nine articles were selected in five kinds of magazines. The citation of the approval of the Ethics Committee and the signature of the Free Consent Term, which were cleared by the responsible, were present in the majority of the articles and it demonstrates the concern and respect of the researchers of this area with the participant citizen on the study.

Keywords: otoacustic emissions, newborn babies, Ethics Committee, consent forms, informed consent.

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