Scaling-up social needs screening in practice: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of data from electronic health records from Bronx county, New York, USA.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There has been renewed focus on health systems integrating social care to improve health outcomes with relatively less related research focusing on 'real-world' practice. This study describes a health system's experience from 2018 to 2020, following the successful pilot in 2017, to scale social needs screening of patients within a large urban primary care ambulatory network.

Setting

Academic medical centre with an ambulatory network of 18 primary care practices located in an urban county in New York City (USA).

Participants

This retrospective, cross-sectional study used electronic health records of 244 764 patients who had a clinical visit between 10 April 2018 and 8 December 2019 across any one of 18 primary care practices.

Methods

We organised meas

SUBMITTER: Fiori KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8483051 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature