Elevating parents' voices in designing and implementing pediatric inpatient social care systems

Hospital Pediatrics readers may be heartened to learn that all parents in the study were accepting of inpatient social needs screening and recognized the importance of screening in this setting. When discussing the potential for inpatient screening, concerns are often raised that asking questions about social needs in the hospital environment may make parents uncomfortable, given the sensitive nature of the questions, while lacking the closer, long-term relationships that are more often built with their pediatrician, or that social questions will be perceived as irrelevant when juxtaposed with the acuity of the medical problem that brought the family to the hospital.