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In the November-December 2007 issue of Annals of Family Medicine, Mann et al concluded that children with hearing loss may be at increased risk of injury (1). The investigators reach this conclusion by interpreting raw data from the Medicaid insurance system, highlighting in the original paper that the available Medicaid records allow them to comment only on the rates of injury treatment and not the actual rates of inju...
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There is little research on the health and healthcare of people with birth or childhood onset hearing loss. Adults who became deaf before age 3yrs (called “prelingual”) have poorer health and less frequent clinician visits than non-deaf adults [1]. Qualitative research [2] and expert opinion [3] report some prelingual deaf adults use emergency department services frequently or inappropriately. It is possible that the...
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We would like to thank Dr. Xiang for his comments, and for summarizing his own work in the are of injury epidemiology in children with disabilities. We agree that an important strength of our study was our ability to control for general propensity to seek treatment, as measured by the number of visits for non-injury reasons.
We also acknowledge Dr. Xiang's point about not being able to examine the psychosocial c...
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I read with great interest the article by Mann et al in the November/December issue of the Annals of Family Medicine reporting the increased injury risk facing children with hearing loss (1). Using South Carolina Medicaid billing data for 2002-2003, the authors compared rates of emergency department or hospital treatment for injury among children with and without a diagnosis of hearing loss and concluded that children w...
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We would like to thank Dr. Osterling for the insights regarding the relevance of our article for clinical practice. We agree that tailored interventions for preventive education and counseling are an important field for future research. These interventions should address issues related to hearing per se, but also should help provide parents/caregivers with skills for effective hazard communication with children who have...
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In the November/December issue of The Annals of Family Medicine, Mann et al reported that children with hearing loss are more likely than other children to end up in an emergency room with injuries. Few studies have looked closely at the injury rate of children with disabilities. Dr. Mann's group focused on deaf and hard-of-hearing children and found that the rate of injury treatment in this population was more than two...
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