title: Deaf patients' access to care depends on staff communication.
abstract: To ensure equal access to care for deaf patients, hospitals must make certain that their staff members can communicate effectively with these patients. To do so, common misconceptions about deaf people and about how they communicate must be corrected, and resources and techniques for staff members to use in communicating with deaf patients must be identified and learned.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003638:Deafness; D006801:Humans; D008369:Manual Communication; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States