April 2025 Research Round-Up

Below we share multiple SIREN-relevant articles published since the last newsletter. For a full list, see the SIREN Evidence and Resource Library. As always, if you are aware of resources that you think should be added to the library, please send them our way.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
LiFTS: Equitably Implementing a Social Needs Screening Program Bouchelle Z, Luke M, Menko SG, et al. | Hospital Pediatrics
Health-Related Social Needs Discussions in Primary Care Encounters in Safety-Net Clinics: A Qualitative Analysis De Leon E, Panganamamula S, Schoenthaler A | JAMA Network Open
Screening for Comprehensive Social Needs in Patients with Cancer: A Narrative Review Arana I, Liu R, Kushi L, Hahn E, Ragavan M | JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Inform Care Coordination by Identifying and Intervening in Patients' Unmet Social Needs: A Scoping Review Davis VH, Pinto AD, Patel MR | Journal of Advanced Nursing
Development of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Extract Social Determinants of Health from Clinician Notes Zaribafzadeh H, Henson JB, Chan NW, et al. | American Journal of Transplantation
Interoperability of Health-Related Social Needs Data at US Hospitals Sandhu S, Liu M, Gottlieb LM, Holmgren AJ, Rotenstein LS, Pantell MS | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Assessing Equitable Implementation of a Social Care Initiative Integrating Medical and Social Services for Medicaid Members Safaeinili N, Chuang E, Hernandez E, et al. | Health Services Research
Health, Housing, and Justice: Two-Year Implementation Evaluation of a Health System's Multi-State Medical-Legal Partnership to Address Housing Instability Arora N, Terry S, Stevens HR, et al. | Health Services Research
Comparison of Clinic-Based Assistance Versus a Centralized Call Center on Patient-Reported Social Needs: Findings from a Randomized Pilot Social Health Integration Program Mahmud A, Brown MC, Wong ES, et al. | BMC Public Health
Hospital-Based Interventions Addressing Social Needs: A Systematic Narrative Review Neadley KE, Shoubridge C, Lynch JW, Boyd MA, Poirier BF | American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Feasibility of Deploying Community Health Workers to Assist with Health-Related Social Needs and Hypertension in Community Care Clinics Robusto B, Cheng I, Mahabaleshwarkar R, et al. | Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Screening and Referral for Health-Related Social Needs and Financial Distress: Current Processes Among National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program Practices Banegas MP, Nightingale CL, Dressler EV, et al. | JCO Oncology Practice
Food interventions
Health Impacts of Health System Implementation of a Food-As-Medicine Strategy Ronis SD, Hartman H, Neeland IJ, Leach A, Cunanan C | American Journal of Managed Care
Understanding the Reasons Why Patients with Food Insecurity Decline Social Assistance at a Large Academic Medical Center Connelley A, Young A, Lee JT, et al. | AJPM Focus
Health Affairs: Food, Nutrition & Health Special Issue
Medicaid Nutrition Supports Associated with Reductions in Hospitalizations and ED Visits in Massachusetts, 2020-23 Hager K, Sabatino M, Williams J, et al. | Health Affairs
Estimated Impact of Medically Tailored Meals on Health Care Use and Expenditures in 50 US States Deng S, Hager K, Wang L, et al. | Health Affairs
Food is Medicine in the US: A National Survey of Public Perceptions of Care, Practices, and Policies Ridberg R, Sharib JR, Garfield K, Hanson E, Mozaffarian D | Health Affairs
A New Approach to Guide Research and Policy at the Intersection of Income, Food, Nutrition, and Health Berkowitz SA, Seligman HK, Mozaffarian D | Health Affairs
Food For Thought: A Vision for Generative ‘Food Is Medicine’ Lumpkin JR, Davis M, Stewart V | Health Affairs
Food is More Than Just Medicine Bank A | Health Affairs
Modeling the Value of ‘Food Is Medicine’: Challenges and Opportunities for Scaling Up Medically Tailored Meals Palar K, Cox C | Health Affairs
“The Start of Something That I Hope Could Be Greater”: Health Information Technology Tools for Social Care Bunce A, Morrissey S, Gold R, et al. | SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
Applying Realist Retroduction to EHR-Based Clinical Decision Support Tool Development Morrissey S, Bunce A, Donovan J, et al. | International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Tools & Toolkits
CMS Accountable Health Communities Model: Practitioner's Implementation Guide Bollo O, Sheward R, Plata-Nino G | Hunger Vital Sign™ National Community of Practice
Commentaries & Blogs
Learning From the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting Gottlieb LM, Angove R, Cartier Y, et al. | Health Services Research
Access to Care: The Role of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs Arientyl V, Castater C, Hart L, Smith RN | The American Surgeon
Food Insecurity, Health, and Health Care in the US Ostrer IR, Seligman HK | JAMA
Navigating the Complexity of Food Insecurity Screening Coker T, Silverstein M, Barry MJ, Nicholson W | JAMA