ArticleThe Permanente journal2018
Perceptions and Experience of Patients, Staff, and Clinicians with Social Needs Assessment.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Insights Into Patients' Perceptions of Health-Related Social Needs and the Role of the Adult Primary Care Clinic.Journal of primary care & community healthTrial
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- Patient and clinician acceptability of automated extraction of social drivers of health from clinical notes in primary care.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- School-Based Health Providers' Approaches to Social Risk Screening for Pediatric Asthma: A Qualitative Study.Pediatric pulmonology · 2025Article
- Integrating Social Needs into Health Care: An Implementation Science Perspective.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Participation in Clinic-Based Referral and Navigation Services Among Families With Social Needs.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Social risk factors screening preferences among breast and prostate cancer survivors: A qualitative study.Journal of psychosocial oncology · 2025Article
- Clinician and Patient Perspectives on the Exchange of Sensitive Social Determinants of Health Information.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Pediatric ACEs Screening and Referral: Facilitators, Barriers, and Opportunities for Improvement.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- Access to primary health care: perspectives of primary care physicians and community stakeholders.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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Abstract
contextAssessment of social needs is expanding at Kaiser Permanente (KP), but little is known about how members and clinicians experience the incorporation of social needs into health care.
objectiveTo assess how KP members and clinicians experience social needs assessments incorporated into care.
designQualitative and descriptive analysis of data from member and clinician focus groups, interviews, and surveys among 68 members and family caregivers who had participated in social needs assessment programs and 90 clinicians and staff in the KP Colorado, Georgia, Northern California, Northwest, and Southern California Regions.
main outcome measuresMembers' and clinicians' perceptions and experiences of social needs assessment.
resultsMembers and clinicians understood the impact of social needs on health and why a health care system representative would ask about food, housing, transportation, and other social needs. Members and clinicians supported social needs assessment at KP and agreed that KP should help address identified social needs. However, both groups emphasized the importance of assessments yielding actionable information. Members were also concerned about how the information would be used and by whom.
conclusionOur findings support the continuing assessment of social needs at KP and identify issues that require attention as it expands. Assessment should not outpace organizational capacity to connect members with resources. Careful attention to communications is required because members may be uncertain or concerned about the purpose of the assessment and the dissemination of sensitive information. Messaging should assure members about data use and dissemination and what they can expect after screening.
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