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February 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 

The Combined and Comparative Impacts of Financial Incentives Versus Practice Facilitation Implementation Support for Social Risk Screening in Community Health Centers Hessler D, Marino M, Kaufmann J, et al. | Health Services Research

Extracting Housing and Food Insecurity Information from Clinical Notes Using cTAKES Kim MH, Miramontes S, Mehta S, et al. | Health Services Research

Hospital Involvement in Screening for and Addressing Patients' Health-Related Social Needs Singh SR, Hogg-Graham R | Medical Care Research and Review

Continuous Quality Improvement in Social Needs Screening: Evaluation of an Intervention in Bariatric Specialty Care Chang C, Cooley S, Iott B, Greene J, Muthukuda D, Tipirneni R | Journal for Healthcare Quality

Individuals' Desire for Social Needs Sharing Among Healthcare Providers: Findings from the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey Olvera RG, Swoboda CM, Joseph JJ, Bose-Brill S, McAlearney AS, Walker DM | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Assistance

Screening and Referral for Social Needs Among Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Trial Gurewich D, Hunt K, Bokhour B, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Association of Hospital-Based Social Needs Interventions with Potentially Preventable Admissions Knox MJ, Brewster AL, Ahern J, Shortell SM, Hague EL, Rodriguez HP | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Getting Inside Closed-Loop Referrals: Exploring the Patient Experience of Finding and Connecting to Social Care with a Community Resource Referral System Using a Community-Based Participatory Approach Olson AW, Allen N, Elmayan A, et al. | Health Services Research

A Human-Centered Approach for Designing a Social Care Referral Platform Haynes D, Cheng P, Weaver M, Parsons H, Karaca-Mandic P | Applied Clinical Informatics

Identification of Social Risk-Related Referrals in Discrete Primary Care Electronic Health Record Data: Lessons Learned from a Novel Methodology Dankovchik J, Gold R, Ochoa A, et al. | Health Services Research

Care Coordination: How Is It Implemented and Is It Different If a Social Worker Is on the Team? Solberg LI, JaKa MM, Knowlton GS, et al. | Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Addressing Health-Related Social Needs During COVID-19 Through a Hospital-Based, Community Health Worker Program: A Case Study Petruzzi LJ, Garza B, Patel S, et al. | Health Promotion Practice

We Rely on Relationships: Homeless Service Providers' Experiences in Coordinating Care Transitions During COVID-19 Anderson AJ, Bowen E | Professional Case Management

Onsite Primary Care to Address Medical Needs Among Permanent Supportive Housing Tenants: A Feasibility Demonstration Project Redline B, Nusser J, Brill J, Brown P, Ichiki S, Chan B | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Health-Related Social Needs Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study Using Human-Centered Design Ragavan MI, Hewitt B, Mickievicz E, et al. | Community Health Equity Research & Policy

Material Goods Provided in Pediatric Primary Care Clinics: A Landscape Analysis Lutz MR, Tyrrell H, Sharifi M, et al. | Academic Pediatrics

Supporting Primary Care for Medically and Socially Complex Patients in Medicaid Managed Care Ash AS, Alcusky MJ, Ellis RP, Sabatino MJ, Eanet FE, Mick EO | JAMA Network Open

Food interventions

Development of a Statewide Network Hub for Screening, Referral, and Enrollment into Food as Medicine Programs Across Kentucky Mayfield C, Lauckner C, Bush J, Cosson E, Batey L, Gustafson A | Frontiers in Public Health

Implementing Food as Medicine During COVID-19: Produce Prescriptions and Integrative Group Medical Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers Thompson-Lastad A, Ruvalcaba D, Chen WT, et al. | Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health

Amplifying Lived Expertise on "Food Is Medicine" in the Mississippi Delta's Legacy of Racism Nicholson-Robinson V, Krobath DM, Dixit-Joshi S, et al. | American Journal of Public Health

Lack of Follow-Up in a Food-Insecure Population Domangue EE, Dubuisson E, Davis G, Ardoin T | American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

Issue Brief

Considerations for Documenting and Sharing Health-Related Social Needs Information in Pediatric Care Settings Bouchelle Z, Brown R, McPeak K, et al | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PolicyLab

Commentaries & Blogs

The One Taboo Question Alpert JM, Hurwitz HM, Rothberg MB | Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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