ArticleJournal of primary care & community health
Factors Associated with Patients' Connection to Referred Social Needs Resources at a Federally Qualified Health Center.
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- Referrals to Community and State Agencies to Address Social Determinants of Health for Improving Mental Health, Functioning, and Quality of Care Outcomes for Diverse Adults.American journal of public health · 2024Trial
- Applying a process mapping methodology to identify barriers and facilitators to social needs screener and medical-legal partnership integration into primary care facilities.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2026Article
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- Examination of Referrals to Address Social Needs Among Health Home Patients.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Association of Patient-Reported Social Needs with Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Assessing and addressing social determinants of health in school-based health centers in King County, Washington.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Implementation of NCCARE360, a Digital Statewide Closed-Loop Referral Platform to Improve Health and Social Care Coordination: Evidence from the North Carolina COVID-19 Support Services Program.North Carolina medical journal · 2024Article
- A Tailored SMS Text Message-Based Intervention to Facilitate Patient Access to Referred Community-Based Social Needs Resources: Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Training student volunteers as community resource navigators to address patients' social needs: A curriculum toolkit.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- "The resources are there, it's just not sufficient:" Primary Care Team Members and Their Experiences with Connecting Patients to Needed Resources.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
- Leveraging Student Volunteers to Connect Patients with Social Risk to Resources On a Coordinated Care Platform: A Case Study with Two Endocrinology Clinics.International journal of integrated careArticle
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Abstract
introductionIn an effort to improve health outcomes and promote health equity, healthcare systems have increasingly begun to screen patients for unmet social needs and refer them to relevant social services and community-based organizations. This study aimed to identify factors associated with the successful connection (ie, services started) to social needs resources, as well as factors associated with an attempt to connect as a secondary, intermediate outcome.
methodsThis retrospective cohort study included patients who had been screened, referred, and subsequently reached for follow-up navigation from March 2019 to December 2020, as part of a social needs intervention at a federally qualified health center (FQHC). Measures included demographic and social needs covariates collected during screening, as well as resource-related covariates that characterized the referred resources, including service domain (area of need addressed), service site (integration relative to the FQHC), and access modality (means of accessing services).
resultsOf the 501 patients in the analytic sample, 32.7% had started services with 1 or more of their referred resources within 4 weeks of the initial referral, and 63.3% had at least attempted to contact 1 referred resource, whether or not they were able to start services. Receiving a referral to resources that patients could access via phone call or drop-in visit, as opposed to resources that required additional appointments or applications prior to accessing services, was associated with increased odds (aOR 1.95, 95% CI 1.05, 3.61) of connection success, after adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity, education, number of social needs, and resource-related characteristics. This study did not find statistically significant associations between connection attempt and any variable included in adjusted analyses.
conclusionThese findings suggest that referral pathways may influence the success of patients' connection to social needs resources, highlighting opportunities for more accessible solutions to addressing patients' unmet social needs.
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