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View article: Improving Early Dementia Detection Among Diverse Older Adults With Cognitive Concerns With the 5-Cog Paradigm: Protocol for a Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Clinical Trial
Improving Early Dementia Detection Among Diverse Older Adults With Cognitive Concerns With the 5-Cog Paradigm: Protocol for a Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Clinical Trial Open
Background The 5-Cog paradigm is a 5-minute brief cognitive assessment coupled with a clinical decision support tool designed to improve clinicians’ early detection of cognitive impairment, including dementia, in their diverse older primar…
View article: Signals in Health Inequity
Signals in Health Inequity Open
Previous research has demonstrated that social determinants of health are drivers of medical utilization, cost, and health outcomes. In this study, we compared the mean annual total cost to deliver health services per patient by health-rel…
View article: Advancing social care integration in health systems with community health workers: an implementation evaluation based in Bronx, New York
Advancing social care integration in health systems with community health workers: an implementation evaluation based in Bronx, New York Open
View article: Advancing Social Care Integration in Health Systems with Community Health Workers: an Implementation Evaluation based in Bronx, New York
Advancing Social Care Integration in Health Systems with Community Health Workers: an Implementation Evaluation based in Bronx, New York Open
Background In recent years, health systems have expanded the focus on health equity to include health-related social needs (HRSNs) screening. Community health workers (CHWs) are positioned to address HRSNs by serving as linkages between he…
View article: Understanding individual health-related social needs in the context of area-level social determinants of health: The case for granularity
Understanding individual health-related social needs in the context of area-level social determinants of health: The case for granularity Open
Introduction: Screening for health-related social needs (HRSNs) within health systems is a widely accepted recommendation, however challenging to implement. Aggregate area-level metrics of social determinants of health (SDoH) are easily ac…
View article: Patients with diabetes struggling to afford food and control their HbA1c in food-insecure areas in Bronx, NY
Patients with diabetes struggling to afford food and control their HbA1c in food-insecure areas in Bronx, NY Open
Objective: To characterise the association between risk of poor glycaemic control and self-reported and area-level food insecurity among adult patients with type 2 diabetes. Design: We performed a retrospective, observational analysis of c…
View article: Unmet Social Needs and Pediatric Asthma Severity in an Urban Primary Care Setting
Unmet Social Needs and Pediatric Asthma Severity in an Urban Primary Care Setting Open
View article: Learning in real world practice: Identifying implementation strategies to integrate health-related social needs screening within a large health system
Learning in real world practice: Identifying implementation strategies to integrate health-related social needs screening within a large health system Open
Introduction: Health systems have many incentives to screen patients for health-related social needs (HRSNs) due to growing evidence that social determinants of health impact outcomes and a new regulatory context that requires health equit…
View article: Social Needs Assessment and Linkage to Community Health Workers in a Large Urban Hospital System
Social Needs Assessment and Linkage to Community Health Workers in a Large Urban Hospital System Open
Objectives: Identifying social needs is a growing priority in primary care, but there is significant variation in how patients access services to meet such needs. This study identifies predictors of successful linkage with a community heal…
View article: Health Care Worker Burnout and Perceived Capacity to Address Social Needs
Health Care Worker Burnout and Perceived Capacity to Address Social Needs Open
Health care organizations are increasingly incorporating social care programs into medical care delivery models. Recent studies have identified burnout as a potential unintended consequence of this expansion. Successful implementation of t…