"More than just giving them a piece of paper": Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care practices are responding to calls to incorporate patients' social risk factors, such as housing, food, and economic insecurity, into clinical care. Healthcare likely relies on the expertise and resources of community-based organizations to improve patients' social conditions, yet little is known about the referral process.

Objective

To characterize referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices.

Design

Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with healthcare administrators responsible for social care efforts in their organization.

Participants

Administrators at 50 diverse US healthcare organizations with efforts to address patients' social risks.

Main measures

Approaches used in primary care to impl

SUBMITTER: Beidler LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9708990 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature