University of California, San Francisco
Objectives: To evaluate the association between caregiver-reported social determinants of health (SDOH) and emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations by children with chronic disease.
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Social determinants of health and emergency and hospital use by children with chronic disease
C.C. Foster, T.D. Simon, P. Qu, P. Holmes, J.K. Chang, J.L. Ramos, A. Koutlas, F.P. Rivara, S.M. Melzer, R. Mangione-Smith
Hosp Pediatr
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchPre-post without Comparison Group
Homeless shelter entry in the year after an emergency department visit: Results from a linked data analysis
K.M. Doran, E. Johns, M. Schretzman, S. Zuiderveen, M. Shinn, R. Gulati, I. Whittman, D. Culhane, D. Shelley, T. Mijanovich
Ann Emerg Med
Study objective: Housing instability is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients and is known to adversely affect health. We aim to determine the incidence and timing of homeless shelter entry after an ED visit among patients who are not currently homeless.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchPre-post without Comparison Group
Food for thought: A qualitative evaluation of caregiver preferences for food insecurity screening and resource referral
D. Cullen, M. Attridge, J.A. Fein
Acad Pediatr
Background/Objective: Although there is growing interest in screening for Food Insecurity (FI) in the clinical setting, little research exists describing the effect of screening practices on caregiver comfort and willingness to disclose social risk, or what factors affect eventual engagement...
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Embedding social workers in veterans health administration primary care teams reduces emergency department visits
P.Y. Cornell, C.W. Halladay, J. Ader, J. Halaszynski, M. Hogue, C.E. McClain, J.W. Silva, L.D. Taylor, J.L. Rudolph
Health Affairs
While an emerging body of evidence suggests that medical homes may yield more benefits than traditional care models do, the role of social workers within medical homes has yet to be evaluated separately.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchPre-post with Comparison Group
Where is the break-even point for community health workers? Using national data and local programmatic costs to find the break-even point for a metropolitan community health worker program.
T. Gurley-Calvez, J.A.R. Williams
Med Care
Background: Community health worker (CHW) programs take many forms and have been shown to be effective in improving health in several contexts. The extent to which they reduce unnecessary care is not firmly established.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Effects of in-person assistance vs personalized written resources about social services on household social risks and child and caregiver health: A randomized clinical trial
L.M. Gottlieb, N.E. Adler, H. Wing, D. Velazquez, V. Keeton, A. Romero, M. Hernandez, A. Munoz Vera, E. Urrutia Caceres, C. Arevalo, P. Herrera, M. Bernal Suarez, D. Hessler
JAMA Network Open
Importance: Social and economic contexts shape children's short- and long-term health. Efforts to address contextual risk factors are increasingly incorporated into pediatric health care.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of 2 social risk-related interventions.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchRandomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
"From taboo to routine": A qualitative evaluation of a hospital-based advocacy intervention for domestic violence and abuse
S. Dheensa, G. Halliwell, J. Daw, S.K. Jones, G. Feder
BMC Health Serv Res
Health services are often the first point of professional contact for people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse. We report on the evaluation of a multi-site, hospital-based advocacy intervention for survivors of domestic violence and abuse.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Foreword to conference proceedings, inventing social emergency medicine
H.J. Alter
Ann Emerg Med
Before you are the proceedings of an invitational consensus conference called Inventing Social Emergency Medicine, including subsequent reflections and a supplemental riff off of the experience of being there.
2019
Peer Reviewed ResearchIntroduction
H.K. Kanzaria, J.R. Hoffman
Ann Emerg Med
In October 2016, when Harrison Alter convened the first meeting of a group that would later become the Social Emergency Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), participants were invited to make a comment while introducing themselves to the group.
2019
Peer Reviewed ResearchPrinciples of social emergency medicine
J. Fahimi, L. Goldfrank
Ann Emerg Med
Throughout most of its history, emergency medicine was practiced on distinct islands, without the standardization, support, or oversight that we expect today.
2019
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