University of California, San Francisco
This commentary expands the Fahimi and Goldfrank overview of the principles of social emergency medicine to speak to its institutionalization. This first requires understanding the mission of social emergency medicine.
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Commentary: What next? From the principles to the practice of social emergency medicine
N.E. Wang
Ann Emerg Med
2019
Commentaries & BlogsCommentary: Seeking consensus goals and broad support for social emergency medicine
S. Lippert
Ann Emerg Med
Fahimi and Goldfrank eloquently delineate the ways in which social emergency medicine is integral to the foundation and practice of emergency medicine.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsReflections: A social emergency medicine call to arms: Promoting the adoption of social emergency medicine practices
T. Schneberk, R.J. Cooper
Ann Emerg Med
The mission of this movement is to recruit people from within the emergency medicine community to adopt and develop social emergency medicine practices.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsAchieving the quadruple aim: Treating patients as people by screening for and addressing the social determinants of health
D. Hsieh
Ann Emerg Med
Health care in the United States has reached a breaking point, with increasing costs, ongoing poor outcomes, and increasing provider burnout.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsCommentary: Screening, education, and advocacy on social determinants of health: The complete package for treating the whole patient
J.F. Garrick
Ann Emerg Med
The commentary by Hsieh on social emergency medicine is a welcome contribution to the practice of emergency medicine. He offers a framework for how emergency providers can approach patients in a holistic way by considering the social determinants of health.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsCommentary: Embracing the problem of subsistence needs in the emergency department
R.M. Rodriguez
Ann Emerg Med
The US health care system is indeed ill. Its disease, unfortunately, is more like widespread, systemic sepsis than isolated single-organ pathology.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsReflections: Addressing the quadruple aim in social emergency medicine
R. Karb, S. Natsui
Ann Emerg Med
Hsieh argues that the ED should serve as a nexus of treatment for the whole patient, inclusive of social factors, by bringing together the expertise of medicine, public health, and social work.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsCommentary: How can emergency departments help end homelessness? A challenge to social emergency medicine
K.M. Doran
Ann Emerg Med
When a distinguishing feature of people living on the streets is the number of hospital identification bracelets—most obtained in emergency departments (EDs)—circling their wrists, it is clear that the ED is part of the problem and must be part of the solution to fixing homelessness....
2019
Commentaries & BlogsHomelessness and the practice of emergency medicine: Challenges, gaps in care, and moral obligations
M. Raven
Ann Emerg Med
"During my research fellowship at Bellevue and New York University, I piloted a program to address the needs of frequent health system users.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsReflections: A perspective on homeless patients in the emergency department
T. Rehman, C.S. Wolff
Ann Emerg Med
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, enacted in 1986, required Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency services to medically screen and stabilize all patients regardless of their ability to pay.
2019
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