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August 2025 Research Round-Up

 - SIREN Staff
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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

Awareness 

Centering Diné (Navajo) Voices: Barriers, Facilitators, and Perceptions of Cardiac Care Among Patients with Heart Failure in Rural Navajo Nation Eberly LA, Tennison A, Morgan L, et al. | Circulation

Drivers of Patient Experiences with Healthcare-Based Social Care Potharaju K, Gottlieb LM, Wing HE, et al. | Health Services Research

Food insecurity Questionnaire on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices for Perinatal Care Professionals Buccini G, Schoetker A, Poblacion A, et al. | PLoS One

Social Determinants of Health Screening and Remote Intervention for a Pediatric Emergency Department: Reaching Rural Families Bernardin ME, Zoellner D, Eichman D, et al. | Family & Community Health

Integrating a Risk Prediction Score in a Clinical Decision Support to Identify Patients with Health-related Social Needs in the Emergency Department Mazurenko O, Harle CA, Musey PI Jr, Schleyer TK, Sanner LM, Vest JR | JAMIA Open

Measurement Bias in Documentation of Social Risk Among Medicare Beneficiaries Chatterjee P, Macneal E, Roberts ET | JAMA Health Forum

An Evaluation of Orthopaedic Nurse Preparedness to Address the 2024 CMS and Joint Commission SDOH Requirements Darby F, Rancu A, Nishime N, Kurek D, Wiznia D | Orthopedic Nursing

Assistance

Geographic Variation in Medicare Advantage Nonemergency Medical Transportation Benefits 2020-2024 Lu CA, He L, Hong AS, Mullins MA, Liao JM, Jiang C | Health Affairs Scholar

Identifying Unmet Needs of Families with Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in a Preparedness Intervention Connected to the Medical Home Bubarth B, Griffin J, Berhane Z, Turchi RM | Child: Care, Health and Development

Public Understanding of and Engagement with Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud: Findings from Two National Surveys Rohan EA, Townsend JS, Torres A, et al. | Preventing Chronic Disease

Is Gaining Housing Associated With Higher Rates of Cancer Screening Among US Veterans Experiencing Homelessness? Decker H, Graham L, Titan A, et al. | Annals of Family Medicine

Piloting a Housing Support Navigator Program at a Safety Net Hospital Kim K, Adhyaru BB | Southern Medical Journal

Food interventions

Impact of Food Insecurity Resource Navigation for Primary Care Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension: A Matched Cohort Study Gupta D, Thomas D, Self S, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Applications of Human-Centered Design to Food Is Medicine Interventions: The THRIVE Pilot Trial Adeleye K, McDaniel K, Iribe I, et al. | Journal of the American Heart Association

Exploring a Food Is Medicine Pilot Program to Improve Dietary Quality Among Rural Perinatal Patients Allen SE, Bielaski T, Canavan CR | BMC Nutrition

Fresh Food Rx: Evaluating the Impact of a Produce Prescription Program on Engagement and Well-being Using the RE-AIM Framework Zimmer R, Strahley A, Shenberger D, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Pediatric Produce Prescription Program Grounded in Community Connection Improves Fruit Intake in Hawaiʻi Esquivel M, Shelton C, Higa A, Jun Ahn H, Okhiro M | AJPM Focus

Addressing Food Insecurity Among U.S. Refugees, Considering the Temporal Patterns of Food Insecurity after Resettlement: Qualitative Insights from Utah Sharareh N, Dalrymple R, Kambouris KN, et al. | PLoS One

Alignment

Multisector Collaborations at Children's Hospitals in the United States to Address Social Drivers of Health Shaikh U, Gosdin M, Helmke E | International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Policy Report

Measuring and Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Cancer Hood V, Schatz A, Biru Y, Erhunmwunsee L, Denlinger CS | Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

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