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October 2024 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

Sharing Social Needs Data Across Sectors: Lessons from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center's Accountable Health Communities Model Bosold A, Singhakiat B, Talwar-Hebert M, et al. | Health Promotion Practice

"We Need to Know These Things": Use Cases for Combined Social and Clinical Data Among Primary Care-Based Clinical and Social Care Providers Cartier Y, Fichtenberg C, Grounds K, Blumenfeld N, Gottlieb L, Hessler Jones D | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Barriers to Identifying and Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Cancer Care: Patient and Patient Navigator Perspectives Henry T, Hayes M, Eisele CD, et al. | Journal of Cancer Policy

On the Development and Validation of Large Language Model-Based Classifiers for Identifying Social Determinants of Health Gabriel RA, Litake O, Simpson S, Burton BN, Waterman RS, Macias AA | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Social Determinants of Health in Hospitalized Children Gross E, Jakubowski E, Sahai S | Pediatric Annals

Characteristics Associated with Positive Social Determinants of Health Screening in Patients Admitted to Pediatric Hospital Medicine Kopsombut G, Rooney-Otero K, Craver E, et al. | Hospital Pediatrics

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Use of ICD-10-CM Codes for Adverse Social Determinants of Health Across Health Systems Llamocca EN, Ahmedani BK, Lockhart E, et al. | Psychiatric Services

Improving Identification of Patients Experiencing Homelessness in the Electronic Health Record: A Curated Registry Approach Stella SA, Hanratty R, Davidson AJ, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

The Percentage of Patients Experiencing Financial Strain Depends on the Screening Measure: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey of Adult Members of an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Tucher EL, Grant RW, Gordon NP | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Impact of Social Risk Screening on Discharge Care Processes and Postdischarge Outcomes: A Pragmatic Mixed-Methods Clinical Trial During the COVID-19 Pandemic Wallace AS, Bristol AA, Johnson EP, et al. | Medical Care

Caring for Dementia Caregivers: How Well Does Social Risk Screening Reflect Unmet Needs? Winslow VA, Lindau ST, Huang ES, et al. | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Adjustment

A Clinical Decision Support Tool for Intimate Partner Violence Screening Among Women Veterans: Development and Qualitative Evaluation of Provider Perspectives Rossi FS, Wu J, Timko C, Nevedal AL, Wiltsey Stirman S | JMIR Formative Research

Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup: Action Plan to Collect and Use Social Determinants of Health Data in Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Shah A, Dobes A, Abdulhay L, et al. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Assistance

Housing Instability Screening and Referral Programs: A Scoping Review Asthana S, Gago L, Garcia J, et al. | Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Strategies to Reduce Frequent Emergency Department Use among Persons Experiencing Homelessness with Mental Health Conditions: A Scoping Review Davis RA, Lookabaugh M, Christnacht K, Stegman R | Journal of Urban Health

A Proactive Phone Intervention for Older Adults to Address Loneliness Identified by a Health Plan Hough KA, Tha SH, Perissinotto CM, Burnes P, Kotwal AA | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Primary Care Patients May Reduce Hospital Readmissions: A Quasi-Experimental Study Kim J, Wang H, Ma J, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Centering the Role of Community Health Workers in Social Risk Screening, Referral, and Follow-Up Within the Primary Care Setting Larson EK, Ingram M, Dougherty E, et al. | BMC Primary Care

Greater COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial Knox M, Hernandez EA, Brown DM, et al. | Health Services Research

Return on Investments in Social Determinants of Health Interventions: What is the evidence? Nikpay S, Zhang Z, Karaca-Mandic P | Health Affairs Scholar

Program Implementation Strategies Associated with Reduced Acute Care Utilization for Medicaid Beneficiaries in California's Whole Person Care Pilot Program Chuang E, Yue D, O'Masta B, Haley LA, Zhou W, Pourat N | Medical Care Research and Review

Trends in Medicare Advantage Plans' Adoption of Nonmedical Transportation Benefits Tucher EL, Meyers DJ, Purvis E, Shtull-Leber L, Clark Z, Thomas KS | Journal of General Internal Medicine

In Their Own Words: Perspectives of IPV Survivors on Obtaining Support Within the Healthcare System Hargrave AS, Dawson-Rose C, Schillinger D, et al. | PLoS One

Exploring the Impact of Race on Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department Kasa L, Alexander K, Obenschain K, Joshi P, Murray A | Pediatric Emergency Care

Reports & Policy Briefs

Screening for Social Drivers of Health: Children's Hospitals Respond | Children’s Hospital Association and Nyoo Health

Food is Medicine National Summit: Transforming Health Care Ridberg RA, Maitin-Shepard M, Garfield K, et al. | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Commentaries & Blogs

Using Insights from Families to Improve Social Needs Screening and Support Community Resource Connection Luke MJ, Darko O, Vasan A | Academic Pediatrics

A Recipe for Successful Food is Medicine Programs: Food Plus People Thomas O, Mirsky J, Gonzalez N, Wadkins B, Albin J | Health Affairs Forefront

A Cautionary Note on Food is Medicine Sindelar J | Health Affairs Forefront

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