Background and objective Studies conflict about whether language discordance increases
rates of hospital readmissions or emergency department (ED) revisits for adult and …

Integrating philosophical or paradigmatic dimensions in mixed methods research studies
facilitates the development of stronger meta-inferences. The transformative paradigm and …

Objective The purpose of this scoping review is to explore health disparities and health
literacy challenges encountered by US adults with hearing loss when trying to seek …

Deaf patients who communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) experience
communication challenges leading to medical errors, treatment delays, and health …

Background Deaf and hard‐of‐hearing (DHH) patients are a priority population for
emergency medicine health services research. DHH patients are at higher risk than non …

Background Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people are at higher risk than their non-DHH
counterparts of experiencing adverse birth outcomes. There is a lack of research focusing on …

Background Deaf individuals who communicate using American Sign Language (ASL)
seem to experience a range of disparities in health care, but there are few empirical data …

Background This study aimed to identify communication barriers between health care
workers (HCWs) and deaf and hard‐of‐hearing (DHH) patients. Both perspectives are …

Abstract The United States pediatric population is unique in that the epidemiological trends
differ from those seen in the adult population. When discussing the pediatric emergency …

Local emergency management agencies (EMAs), who are critical in disaster response and
management in the US, frequently underserve their constituencies who identify as people …