Implementing Health Related Social Needs Screening in an Outpatient Clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction/objectives

Health-related social needs (HRSN) screening efforts have reported high rates of identified social needs. Little is known if efforts to conduct HRSN screening in resource-constrained federally-qualified health centers (FQHC) successfully captures a representative patient population.

Methods

This cross-sectional study extracted EMR data from 2016 to 2020 for 4731 screened patients from 7 affiliated clinics of a FQHC. Unscreened patients were pulled as a random sample from the study period. A multivariable logistic regression was used to identify sociodemographic traits, chronic disease diagnoses and burden, and clinic visit type and frequency associated with being screened for HRSN.

Results

BHC screened 4731 unique patients or <1% of the total c

SUBMITTER: Nohria R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9393584 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature