Below, we highlight multiple SIREN-relevant articles published since the last newsletter. For a comprehensive list of articles, 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.
October Research Highlights
Produce Prescription Dose Response: A Randomized Community Trial Kane RM, Perez-Velazco X, Levi R, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine
This randomized trial of 242 adults tested monthly produce-prescription incentives of $40, $80, or $110 for 6 months, redeemable only for fruits and vegetables. Higher doses produced a clear dose-response pattern, with the $110 arm significantly reducing food insecurity compared with $40.
Supporting Asthma Guideline-Based Management by Integrating Patient Navigators Apter AJ, Morales KH, Klusaritz H, et al. | The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
In this randomized trial of 350 mostly Black adults with asthma in low-income areas, Navigator Home Visits combined with clinical interventions (Navigator-guided preparation for, attendance at, and review of recommendations for patients’ asthma appointments) improved asthma control more than Clinician Feedback from patient/navigator alone. Home Visit Navigators helped to identify social risks such as pests, water leaks, and smoking exposures.
Medicaid Waiver-Based Housing Supports in a Safety-Net Setting: Utilization and Spending Outcomes McCann NC, Hsu HE, Ettinger de Cuba S, et al. | Health Affairs Scholar
Higher and Lower Intensity Outreach to Increase Enrollment in a Medicaid Food Is Medicine Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial Matathia S, Alani S, Cheng D, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine
Implementation of a Six-Month Produce Prescription Program for a Rural Medicaid Population Increased Vegetable Consumption and Reduced Food Insecurity in Washington State Castilla A, Silva G, Belay T, Gauck D, Stendell-Hollis N | Preventive Medicine Reports
“I Don’t Have to Choose Between Everything”: Self-Reported Fruit and Vegetable Affordability, Purchasing Shifts, and Healthcare Utilization Among Produce Prescription Program Participants in North Carolina Reimold AE, Ostrowski J, Feng ASN, et al. | Preventive Medicine Reports
An Electronic Health Record-Based Intervention to Facilitate Primary Care Referrals to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children: Retrospective Cohort Study Montez K, Kay MC, Taxter AJ, Lewis KH | JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
A Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Three Food Prescription Programs for Older Adults: Program Design, Implementation, and Utilization Leone LA, Lally Mathiebe A, Stoll J, Paluch RA, Tirabassi JN | Frontiers in Public Health
Association of Post-Discharge Meal Delivery with Hospital Readmissions Among Food-Insecure Older Adults McPeek Hinz E, Hoffman AF, Pignone M, et al. | Journal of Hospital Medicine
Food Insecurity Screening and Immediate Access to Prepackaged Groceries in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Pilot Study Fujii H, Hunter B, Bapty S, et al. | Pediatric Emergency Care
Nutrition Security Screening in Clinical Care: A Feasibility and Implementation Evaluation in Family Medicine and Subspecialty Clinics Ridberg R, Owens C, Damjanovic M, et al. | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Hemoglobin A1c and Weight Changes Associated with Grocery Delivery and Low-Carbohydrate Education in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity: Observational Quality Improvement Cohort Study Waselewski M, Waselewski E, Oshman L, Hatch K, Chang T | JMIR Formative Research
An AI-Based Whole-Person Care Summarization Tool for Care Management Providers Mulligan J, Zhu K, Batlivala N, Kumar S, Juusola JL, Favini N | NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery
Enhancing Medicaid Social Risk Identification: Comparing Linear and Non-Linear Machine Learning Models with Expert Heuristics Khan S, Kumar PH, Algrain H, de Leon L, Parker B, Mays V | IEEE International Conference on Digital Health
“It Would Be a Burden Off My Back”: Veterans’ Perceptions of Social Risk and Needs Screening Acceptability Nevedal AL, Koselka E, Rao M, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine
“The Resources Are So Far, and You Need Them Right Here”: Perspectives on Emergency Care for Youth Who Experience Violence Kemal S, Hoffmann JA, Loo S, Madden D, Alpern ER, Samuels-Kalow M | Academic Pediatrics
Integrating Community Linkages into Care Management Workflows to Address Contextual Drivers of Health: Lessons from a Pilot Intervention Gunn R, Pisciotta M, Owens-Jasey C, et al. | Population Health Management
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Develop a Social Risk Screening Protocol, Tailored to the Needs of Pregnant and Postpartum People in Metro Atlanta Adams K, Gamble Z, Boulet SL, et al. | Health Equity
Barriers to Solutions: A Framework Guided Review of Social Determinants of Breast Cancer Screening and Interventions Designed to Address Them Rademacher N, Wall CS, Huynh VD | Current Breast Cancer Reports
Changes in Healthcare Use and Cost Associated with Referrals to Social Prescribing Link Workers in England: A Matched Case-Control Cohort Study Wilding A, Munford L, Sutton M, et al. | eClinicalMedicine
Assessing the Contextual Factors Around Implementing Social Needs Screening and Intervention Programs in Primary Care in the United States: A Systematic Review Chang E, Guzman I, Glowacki N, Khatib R | Preventive Medicine
Outpatient Interventions Addressing the Social Determinants of Health for Children and Their Families: A Scoping Review Cohen-Silver J, Artyukh I, Puinean G, et al. | Academic Pediatrics
Under Pressure and Underrecognized: The Role of Social Workers and Case Managers in Screening for Social Determinants of Health in the United States Habrat ML, Nelson LD, Nelson DA | Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
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