Tag: Disabled / Special Needs

Physicians with disabilities reported physical and sexual mistreatment from both coworkers and patients

Risks for neonatal complications increased for newborns of women with disabilities, especially those with intellectual, developmental disability

Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible because of disability have higher COVID-19 incidence, hospitalization rates than age-eligible

Survivors who are younger, poor, uninsured or publicly insured, unmarried, or who have functional limitations have greatest barriers

Frailty, low functional self-efficacy, smoking, and obesity are potentially modifiable vulnerability factors

71.2 percent of the physicians answered incorrectly about who determined reasonable accommodations for patients with disability

Risk for severe maternal morbidities and maternal mortality higher for pregnant women who have disabilities, regardless of disability type

Findings seen among women of reproductive age with self-reported disability

Adults with disabilities more often report that the pandemic makes it harder for them to access care, medication

Only 56.5 percent strongly agree that they welcome patients with disability into their practices