Communication Disabilities Among Medical Patients

Communication Disabilities among Medical Inpatients

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199807233390416

We found one or more severe disabilities affecting communication among 15.9 percent of our patients. Nine percent had altered mental states, 4.7 percent vision impairments, 2.8 percent speech ...

Adults with Communication Disabilities Experience …

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-018-4625-1

In a study of Medicare recipients, Hoffman et al. reported low satisfaction with healthcare and patient-provider communication among persons with CD. 5 These …

Approach to Improving Patient Safety: Communication

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/approach-improving-patient-safety-communication

Communicating with Patients with Disability: …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30887435/

Communicating with patients with intellectual disability raised particular concerns, with participants often preferring to interact with caregivers and minimal efforts to involve …

Communicating With and About People …

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/materials/factsheets/fs-communicating-with-people.html

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Effect of Communication Disability on Satisfaction With …

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/1058-0360(2005/022)

Hearing problems were most commonly reported (41.99%). The association between dissatisfaction and communication disability was statistically significant (p ≤ .05) for 8 …

Communication Issues in Physical Medicine and …

https://now.aapmr.org/communication-issues-in-physical-medicine-and-rehabiltiation/

Table 1: Team Members in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Barriers to communication have the potential to exist within each component of the interdisciplinary …

Principles of effective communication with patients who …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28190542/

Objective: Examine physicians' implementation of effective communication principles with patients with intellectual disabilities (ID) and its predictors. Methods: …

Disability and Health Disability Barriers

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Here are examples of social barriers: People with disabilities are far less likely to be employed. In 2017, 35.5% of people with disabilities, ages 18 to 64 years, were employed, while 76.5% of people without …

Communication Disabilities – Communication Disabilities …

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Huntington’s disease is an inherited disease that results in difficulty in movement, thinking and behavior. Speech may be slurred or the person may have little or no speech. A …