Patient-Portal Compared with Supplemental In-Office Tablet Screening for Health-Related Social Needs in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening for health-related social needs (HRSN) has become more widespread but the best method of delivering the screening tool is not yet known.

Objective

Describe HRSN screening completion rate, specifically portal-based and in-person tablet-based screening.

Design

Cross-sectional retrospective observational study.

Participants

Adults age 18 or older who had a non-acute primary care visit at one of three internal medicine primary care clinics at a large, urban, academic medical center between July 2022 and July 2023.

Main measures

We identified the proportion of individuals who were screened using the HRSN questionnaire, whether screening was completed by patient-portal or tablet, as well as the degree of burden of HRSN. Using the electroni

SUBMITTER: Meltzer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436592 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature