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Hospitals throughout the United States are implementing new forms of care delivery meant to address social needs for structurally vulnerable patients as a strategy to prevent emergency department visits and hospitalizations and to thereby reduce costs.
Evidence & Resource Library
The SIREN Evidence & Resource Library has expanded to include both peer-reviewed publications and other types of resources such as webinars and screening tools/toolkits on medical and social care integration. To limit your search to peer-reviewed articles, select Peer Reviewed Research under Resource Type. If you have questions about how to use the library or suggestions about additional resources, view this help document or write us at siren@ucsf.edu. Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter to get alerts about recent additions to the Evidence & Resource Library.
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Caring for "super-utilizers": Neoliberal social assistance in the safety-net
M.D. Fleming, J.K. Shim, I. Yen, M. Van Natta, C. Hanssmann, N.J. Burke
Med Anthropol Q
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
A dual-method approach to identifying intimate partner violence within a Level 1 trauma center
S. DiVietro, R. Beebe, D. Grasso, C. Green, D. Joseph, G.D. Lapidus
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health problem leading many health care organizations to recommend universal screening as part of standard health care practice. Prior work shows that most IPV victims and perpetrators are unidentified by health care staff.
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Child abuse and neglect risk assessment: Quality improvement in a primary care setting
E.K. Chung, R.S. Gubernick, M. LaNoue, D.J. Abatemarco
Acad Pediatr
Objectives: Practicing Safety (PS) is an AAP toolkit to help practices address child abuse and neglect (CAN) risk by increasing screening and providing resources.
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchPre-post without Comparison Group
Predictive modeling of housing instability and homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration
T. Byrne, A.E. Montgomery, J.D. Fargo
Health Serv Res
Objective: To develop and test predictive models of housing instability and homelessness based on responses to a brief screening instrument administered throughout the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Value of neighborhood socioeconomic status in predicting risk of outcomes in studies that use electronic health record data
N.A. Bhavsar, A. Gao, M. Phelan, N.J. Pagidipati, B.A. Goldstein
JAMA Network Open
Importance: Data from electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly used for risk prediction. However, EHRs do not reliably collect sociodemographic and neighborhood information, which has been shown to be associated with health.
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Food insecurity, healthcare utilization, and high cost: A longitudinal cohort study
S.A. Berkowitz, H.K. Seligman, J.B. Meigs, S. Basu
Am J Manag Care
Objectives: Reducing utilization of high-cost healthcare services is a common population health goal. Food insecurity-limited access to nutritious food owing to cost-is associated with chronic disease, but its relationship with healthcare utilization is understudied.
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Addressing family homelessness in pediatrics: Progress and possibility
A. Schickedanz, P.J. Chung
Pediatrics
Homelessness during pregnancy or childhood should be unthinkable in a society that treats children and families with dignity. Sandel et al. provide new evidence from 5 cities on just how damaging homelessness in pregnancy and early childhood are to child health.
2018
Commentaries & BlogsPerceptions and experience of patients, staff, and clinicians with social needs assessment
C. Hamity, A. Jackson, L. Peralta, J. Bellows
Perm J
Context: Assessment of social needs is expanding at Kaiser Permanente (KP), but little is known about how members and clinicians experience the incorporation of social needs into health care.
2018
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Housing as health
H.K. Koh, R. Restuccia
JAMA
Envision a society that fully connects the usually disparate worlds of health and housing. Clinicians would implement strategies that feature “housing as a vaccine” to prevent illness and disability.
2018
Commentaries & BlogsSocial determinants as public goods: A new approach to financing key investments in healthy communities
L.M. Nichols, L.A. Taylor
Health Affairs
Good research evidence exists to suggest that social determinants of health, including access to housing, nutrition, and transportation, can influence health outcomes and health care use for vulnerable populations.
2018
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