How to Provide Accessible Hearing Health Information to Promote Patient-Centered Care
Publication: Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
Volume 5, Number 1
Pages 173-180
Abstract
Purpose
This clinical focus article focuses on accessible hearing health information and is written in twofold. First, it outlines the connection between factors of patient-centered care, shared decision making, and health literacy on health outcomes. Second, it provides some practical strategies for providing and assessing accessible health information to promote patient-centeredness and shared decision making.
Conclusion
Health information accessibility will positively influence the treatment choices made by patients and the way in which they self-manage their health. Hearing health care professionals need to take proactive measures to ensure that the information provided in different mediums have easily readable language, adequate quality, suitability, understandability, and actionability to ensure accessibility of hearing health information.
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- Received: Aug 15, 2019
- Revised: Nov 14, 2019
- Accepted: Nov 14, 2019
- Published online: Feb 5, 2020
- Published in issue: Feb 21, 2020
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