A. Smeijers

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Clinical practice
TLDR
The communication challenges and medical, ethical and legal issues a physician can experience when faced with deaf or severely hard of hearing patients are described.
Towards a treatment for treatment: on communication between general practitioners and their deaf patients
TLDR
The results indicate that there are worrying problems in the communication between (general) practitioners and their deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.
Regional and global right ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients with congenitally corrected transposition
TLDR
The hypothesis that, in patients with congenitally corrected transposition, ischemia of the right ventricular myocardium contributes to the development ofright ventricular dysfunction is supported.
Clinical Practice : the approach to the deaf or hard-of-hearing patient.
TLDR
The challenges in communication and medical, ethical and legal issues a physician might have to deal with when faced with children and adolescents that are deaf or severely hard of hearing are described.
Availability of specialised healthcare facilities for deaf and hard of hearing individuals
TLDR
In insight into the various types of general healthcare facilities available for DHH individuals, some facilities or combinations of facilities are used in different countries to attempt to meet the needs of DHH patients.
Sign Language Translation in a Healthcare Setting
TLDR
A system which allows healthcare professionals to translate sentences that are frequently used in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 into Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), and is extended to other applications and other sign languages in a relatively straightforward way.
Online Evaluation of Text-to-sign Translation by Deaf End Users: Some Methodological Recommendations (short paper)
We present a number of methodological recommendations concerning the online evaluation of avatars for text-to-sign translation, focusing on the structure, format and length of the questionnaire, as…
HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD-OF-HEARING
The approach to the deaf or hard-of-hearing paediatric patient
TLDR
The communication challenges and medical, ethical and legal issues a physician can experience when faced with deaf or severely hard of hearing patients are described.
Specialized outpatient clinic for deaf and hard‐of‐hearing patients in the Netherlands: Lessons learned in an attempt to improve health care
TLDR
There is a great need for facilities to collect and disseminate information to and about DHH patients and thorough market research prior to start up is needed to enable the facility to connect with the needs of patients.
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