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Journal Article
The criticality of reasonable accommodations: A scoping review revealing gaps in care for patients with blindness and low vision
2025
Overview
Health and healthcare disparities for surgical patients with blindness and low vision (pBLV) stem from inaccessible healthcare systems that lack universal design principles or, at a minimum, reasonable accommodations (RA).
We aimed to identify barriers to developing and implementing RAs in the surgical setting and provide a review of best practices for providing RAs.
We conducted a search of PubMed for evidence of reasonable accommodations, or lack thereof, in the surgical setting. Articles related to gaps and barriers to providing RAs for pBLV or best practices for supporting RAs were reviewed for the study.
Barriers to the implementation of reasonable accommodations, and, accordingly, best practices for achieving equity for pBLV, relate to policies and systems, staff knowledge and attitudes, and materials and technology.
These inequities for pBLV require comprehensive frameworks that offer, maintain, and support education about disability disparities and RAs in the surgical field. Providing RAs for surgical pBLV, and all patients with disabilities is an important and impactful step towards creating a more equitable and anti-ableist health system.
•Reasonable accommodations (RA) are adjustments in policies, practices and procedures to ensure accessibility for all patients.•The lack of comprehensive frameworks for supporting RAs leads to health disparities for people with blindness and low vision.•Barriers to providing RAs can be categorized as related to policies and systems, staff and attitudes, or materials.
Publisher
Elsevier Inc,Elsevier Limited
