Sustaining and scaling a clinic-based approach to address health-related social needs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Scaling evidence-based interventions (EBIs) from pilot phase remains a pressing challenge in efforts to address health-related social needs (HRSN) and improve population health. This study describes an innovative approach to sustaining and further spreading DULCE (Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone), a universal EBI that supports pediatric clinics to implement the American Academy of Pediatrics' Bright Futures™ guidelines for infants' well-child visits (WCVs) and introduces a new quality measure of families' HRSN resource use.

Methods

Between August 2018 and December 2019, seven teams in four communities in three states implemented DULCE: four teams that had been implementing DULCE since 2016 and three new teams. Teams received monthly

SUBMITTER: Arbour M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012656 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature