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Adoption of Social Determinants of Health EHR Tools by Community Health Centers
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PURPOSE: This pilot study assessed the feasibility of implementing electronic health record (EHR) tools for collecting, reviewing, and acting on patient-reported social determinants of health (SDH) data in community health centers (CHCs). We believe it is the first such US study. METHODS: We implemented a suite of SDH data tools in 3 Pacific Northwest CHCs in June 2016, and used mixed methods to assess their adoption through July 2017. We modified the tools at clinic request; for example, we added questions that ask if the patient wanted assistance with SDH needs. RESULTS: Social determinants of health data were collected on 1,130 patients during the study period; 97% to 99% of screened patients (n = 1,098) had ≥1 SDH need documented in the EHR, of whom 211 (19%) had an EHR-documented SDH referral. Only 15% to 21% of patients with a documented SDH need indicated wanting help. Examples of lessons learned on adoption of EHR SDH tools indicate that clinics should: consider how to best integrate tools into existing workflow processes; ensure that staff tasked with SDH efforts receive adequate tool training and access; and consider that timing of data entry impacts how and when SDH data can be used. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that adoption of systematic EHR-based SDH documentation may be feasible, but substantial barriers to adoption exist. Lessons from this study may inform primary care providers seeking to implement SDH-related efforts, and related health policies. Far more research is needed to address implementation barriers related to SDH documentation in EHRs.
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This pilot implemented EHR tools for collecting, reviewing, and acting on patient-reported social determinants of health (SDH) data in 3 Pacific Northwest community health centers. It found systematic EHR-based SDH documentation feasible but identified substantial adoption barriers, with high positive screening rates but low referral and patient-requested-help rates.
Key findings
- SDH data were collected on 1,130 patients, representing 4% to 18% of adult patients with an ambulatory visit at the pilot clinics; 97% to 99% of screened patients had ≥1 SDH need documented, and 211 (19%) had an EHR-documented SDH referral.
- After questions about wanting help were added, 15% of Clinic A patients and 21 of Clinic B patients with a documented SDH need requested help.
- Facilitators included a trusted, EHR-savvy clinic champion, ability to customize EHR views, and reporting requirements; barriers included fragmented patient data, added workflow difficulty, paper-based data entry, time-consuming referrals, and unmanageable follow-up workload before desire-for-help questions were added.
- The clinics successfully documented SDH in the EHR and continued post-study, but referral documentation was especially challenging.
Methods
- Concurrent mixed-methods pilot at 3 OCHIN member community health centers in the Pacific Northwest; Epic-based SDH tools built on PRAPARE were deployed in June 2016 and assessed through July 2017, extended from 12 to 13 months.
- Quantitative EHR data described adult patients with documented SDH data or ≥1 ambulatory visit, including demographics, SDH needs, referrals, and problem list diagnoses.
- Qualitative data included 6 days of workflow observation, 24 interviews with care team members, and observations of clinic decision-maker discussions; analysis used deductive and inductive coding and the constant comparative method.
Limitations
- The paper states it could not calculate SDH screening documentation rates among targeted patients because target populations changed, change dates were unclear, and target criteria were not easily extracted from the EHR; screened vs unscreened differences therefore cannot be interpreted as related to EHR-based SDH screening.
- The paper states screened-patient counts may be low and SDH need prevalence may be higher than in the overall population because some paper surveys were likely not entered into the EHR; referral rates are likely underestimated because referrals were often documented in chart notes rather than discrete fields.
- The paper states it could not assess changes in SDH status, care quality, or biomarkers; could not quantify how often the SDH summary was accessed or by whom; the SDH screening measures have not been validated as predictive of specific outcomes; and the single EHR system limits transferability. Evident from the text: this was a small 3-clinic pilot with clinic-selected pragmatic target groups and no control or comparison group.
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“(2) could add a layer of difficulty to collecting and acting on SDH data; (eg, due to lack of staff EHR expertise, the tools' customized nature, differences in EHR security access by staff role, and the need for new EHR competencies from some staff)”
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“Only 15% to 21% of patients with a documented SDH need indicated wanting help.”
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“15% of Clinic A patients and 21% of Clinic B patients with a documented need requested help.”
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“97% to 99% of screened patients (n = 1,098) had ≥1 SDH need documented in the EHR”
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“Most screened patients (97% to 99%) indicated a potential SDH need in ≥1 SDH domain”
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“Referral documentation proved especially challenging.”
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“(3) sought to minimize the primary care provider's role in SDH documentation, and in making SDH-related referrals.”
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“All 3 clinics: (1) adapted their workflows as needed”
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“(3) necessitated a data entry step if SDH information were collected on paper.”
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“Making it known that SDH data might address reporting requirements increased staff motivation.”
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“until questions asking whether patients desired follow-up for SDH needs were added, the high positive screening rate yielded an unmanageable follow-up workload”
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“Referral workflows varied by clinic, differentially impacting our ability to determine SDH domains associated with referrals.”
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“Like most CHCs, the study clinics' patient populations are primarily publicly insured or uninsured and aged <65 years; 10% to 31% are non-white and 10% to 30% are of Hispanic ethnicity (Table 2).”
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“Despite the many identified challenges to adopting all of the SDH data tools, the study clinics did successfully document SDH in the EHR, and continued to do so post-study.”
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“Clinics B and C routed most SDH referrals to community health workers or similar staff; these internal referrals generally lacked the information required to match them to a specific SDH need.”
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“B 379 367 (96.8) 26 (6.8)”
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“A 602 583 (96.8) 141 (23.4)”
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“C 149 148 (99.3) 44 (29.5)”
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“Facilitators to using EHR tools to document SDH included a clinic champion who was trusted, EHR-savvy, able to customize EHR views to support workflows, and willing to use adoption data to iterate workflows.”
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“Clinic A first tested their workflows with a few randomly chosen patients per day, then added all new patients plus those completing annual insurance reauthorizations, and eventually added patients receiving care coordination, HIV services, and behavioral health services.”
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“Clinic B began with patients in their diabetes and Hepatitis C case management programs, then added patients aged 65 years and older.”
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“Key barriers included perceptions that EHR-based SDH data tools: (1) created a fragmented view of the patient, with relevant data in multiple places, and did not readily support documenting a narrative about a given patient”
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“Consider that the completed paper form does not reveal how a patient scored on the SDH domains; this scoring is not easily identifiable until the data are in the EHR.”
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“Social determinants of health data were collected on 1,130 patients during the study period”
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“Social determinants of health data were collected on 1,130 patients, representing 4% to 18% of adult patients with an ambulatory visit at the pilot clinics during the study period (Table 2 and Table 3).”
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“Consider using text shortcut tools to document provision of community resource materials or referrals provided by SDH topic (this does not provide agency details, but is a fast and easy way to document SDH referrals).”
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“(2) principally used the paper-based SDH screening questionnaire, necessitating a data entry workflow step that impacted when the data were available in the EHR”
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“Each clinic first screened a limited population of patients, then scaled up.”
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“This pilot study is the first to formally test adoption of EHR-based SDH data documentation, review, and action in CHCs, and is one of the first in any clinical setting.”
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“While some aspects of the tools were not widely adopted, this is common to such efforts [58][59][60][61] ; adoption of new EHR tools can take time.”
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“however, for the benefits of systematic EHR-based SDH documentation to be realized, barriers to adoption of EHR tools must be addressed.”
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“SDH documentation, review, and referral-making in EHRs can be feasible and useful, but is challenging to adopt.63”
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“Some barriers to SDH screening are likely to occur regardless of the technology used, for example, staff concerns about SDH screening when little intervention is possible.”
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“Analysis followed the constant comparative method 46 ; new data were compared with previously collected/coded data to detect commonalities/differences, and to develop nuanced understandings of clinic experiences.”
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“For example, some clinic counts of patients screened did not match our quantitative data from the EHR; further, we observed that data entry workflows were not always standardized.”
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“Regular study team meetings and discussions with stakeholders informed each step of analysis and results interpretation.”
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“Social determinants of health documentation in EHRs could enable care plan adjustments/referrals to social services, and tracking such referrals' results.”
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“This study was approved by the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Institutional Review Board.”
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“We could not calculate rates of SDH screening documentation among targeted patients because the study clinics' target populations changed during the study period, the dates of these changes were unclear, and target criteria were not easily extracted from the EHR.”
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“Quantitative and qualitative data were collected simultaneously.Preliminary results from each informed subsequent data collection (eg, discrepancies between interview descriptions of clinic workflows and corresponding quantitative data were further explored in site visits).”
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“The systematic EHR documentation and management of SDH needs could impact CHC patients' health, but optimizing such EHR tools and integrating them smoothly into clinic workflows will require addressing substantial knowledge gaps.”
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“Before benefits can be fully realized, the unique challenges of EHR-based SDH documentation and referral-making must be understood and addressed.1,39,48”
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“Data collection and analysis were iterative and inductive; emergent understanding and questions from preliminary findings were explored.”
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“Therefore, to meet the growing national emphasis on EHR-based SDH documentation and referral, numerous factors must be considered.”
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“Our findings are consistent with those of a prior case study on EHR-based SDH documentation.62”
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“Final results were compared to validate and confirm analytic interpretations.”
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“Our results raise important questions about the feasibility of EHR-based SDH documentation per national recommendations.”
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“Results may be informative to CHCs and other primary care providers seeking to implement SDH-related efforts, especially if SDH documentation becomes required or associated with financial incentives.”
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“It is possible that our count of screened patients may be low, and prevalence of SDH needs among screened patients may be higher than in the clinics' overall population, as some data from paper surveys were likely not entered into EHRs, especially if no SDH needs were identified.”
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The study is the first US study on the collection of SDH data using EHR-based tools in community health centers.
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“They also do not include measures that reflect whether SDOH data are reviewed after being documented.”
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“These studies reveal the value of measuring different approaches to SDOH documentation in the EHR but do not offer a generalizable set of measures that can be used to compare different EHR-based SDOH documentation options.”
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“This suggests that simply adding dedicated SDOH fields and tools to EHRs is insufficient to drive increased documentation of social needs, a conclusion consistent with other publications.13,21”
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“19 20 – 23 ICD-10-CM Z codes, however, are underused, 24,25 and lack the granularity and breadth necessary to guide design of social interventions.”
BackgroundThe Impact of Social and Clinical Complexity on Diabetes Control Measures
Cottrell, E., O'Malley, J. P., Dambrun, K., Park, B., Hendricks, M. A., Xu, H., Charlson, M. E., Bazemore, A., Shenkman, E. A., Sears, A., et al. (2020) · The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine · doi:10.3122/jabfm.2020.04.190367 · Cited by 26
“16,17 23 However, there are numerous barriers to integrating SDH screening into clinical settings and ensuring standardized documentation in EHRs.”
BackgroundSelf-citationHolt, J. M., Cusatis, R. N., Asan, O., Williams, J. S., Nukuna, S., Flynn, K. E., Moore, J. E., & Crotty, B. H. (2019) · Healthcare · doi:10.1016/j.hjdsi.2019.100369 · Cited by 25
Keloth, V. K., Selek, S., Chen, Q., Gilman, C., Fu, S., Dang, Y., Chen, X., Hu, X., Zhou, Y., He, H., et al. (2025) · npj Digital Medicine · doi:10.1038/s41746-025-01645-8 · Cited by 24
Stipelman, C. H., Kukhareva, P., Trepman, E., Nguyen, Q., Valdez, L., Kenost, C., Hightower, M., & Kawamoto, K. (2022) · Yearbook of Medical Informatics · doi:10.1055/s-0042-1742518 · Cited by 26
“An additional study (one article) and eight non-redundant additional articles about remaining studies that were not identified by the PubMed search were added, resulting in 28 studies (36 articles) included in the review [30-65].”
BackgroundTorres, C. H., Gold, R. B., Kaufmann, J., Marino, M., Hoopes, M. J., Totman, M. S., Aceves, B., & Gottlieb, L. M. (2023) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2023.02.018 · Cited by 24
Self-citationPredmore, Z., Hatef, E., & Weiner, J. P. (2019) · Population Health Management · doi:10.1089/pop.2018.0151 · Cited by 24
Xi, W., Banerjee, S., Olfson, M., Alexopoulos, G. S., Xiao, Y., & Pathak, J. (2023) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31387-0 · Cited by 23
Palakshappa, D., Benefield, A. J., Furgurson, K. F., Harley, M. G., Bundy, R. A., Moses, A., Taxter, A. J., Bensinger, A., Cao, X., Denizard-Thompson, N. M., et al. (2020) · Population Health Management · doi:10.1089/pop.2020.0059 · Cited by 23
“14 The team used the data capture functionality that is already available in the electronic patient portal with the digital health system, so the screening results were directly captured in the EHR.”
Parry, J. E., Vanstone, M. G., Grignon, M., & Dunn, J. R. (2021) · International Journal for Equity in Health · doi:10.1186/s12939-021-01546-8 · Cited by 26
Tuzzio, L., Wellman, R., Marchis, E. H. D., Gottlieb, L. M., Walsh‐Bailey, C., Jones, S. M. W., Nau, C., Steiner, J. F., Banegas, M. P., Sharp, A. L., et al. (2022) · The Annals of Family Medicine · doi:10.1370/afm.2774 · Cited by 24
“To measure trust in provider, we used the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems on a scale of 1 (not at all) to 10 (completely) that was collapsed into 3 categories based roughly on equal-sized tertiles: completely (10), high (8-9), and medium-to-low (1-7) trust.”
MethodSelf-citationPatient Interest in Receiving Assistance with Self-Reported Social Risks
Gruß, I., Varga, A. M., Brooks, N. B., Gold, R. B., & Banegas, M. P. (2021) · The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine · doi:10.3122/jabfm.2021.05.210069 · Cited by 22
“18,20 The only other study on requests for help by risk domain, set in an urban health clinic for young adults, 19 found that patients most commonly requested help with income security (83% of those reporting a risk requested help), education (56%), and nutrition and fi tness (50%).”
BackgroundSelf-citationImplementing Social Determinants of Health Screening in US Emergency Departments
Loo, S. S., Molina, M. F., Ahmad, N. J., Swanton, M. F., Chen, O., Boggs, K. M., Camargo, C. A., & Samuels‐Kalow, M. E. (2025) · JAMA Network Open · doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0137 · Cited by 22
Berg, K., Doktorchik, C. T. A., Quan, H., & Saini, V. (2022) · Health Systems · doi:10.1080/20476965.2022.2075796 · Cited by 22
“Individual and population-level data reveal predictable, independent, and intersectional associations between SDOH variables and health outcomes (Conway et al., 2019; Gold et al., 2018; Gottlieb et al., 2015; Lofters et al., 2017; Marmot et al., 2008).”
BackgroundIott, B. E., Pantell, M. S., Adler-Milstein, J., & Gottlieb, L. M. (2022) · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · doi:10.1093/jamia/ocac154 · Cited by 22
Self-citationReceipt of Social Needs Assistance and Health Center Patient Experience of Care
Nguyen, K. H., Trivedi, A. N., & Cole, M. B. (2020) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2020.08.030 · Cited by 23
A Systematic Review of Electronic Community Resource Referral Systems
Drewry, M., Yanguela, J., Khanna, A., O’Brien, S., Phillips, E., Bevel, M., McKinley, M. W., Corbie, G., & Dave, G. (2023) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2023.06.001 · Cited by 21
April-Sanders, A. (2024) · Journal of the American Heart Association · doi:10.1161/jaha.124.036518 · Cited by 23
Taccheri, C., Jordan, J. A., Tran, D., Wang, J., Han, D., Varadaraj, V., Crews, D. C., & Cai, C. X. (2023) · Ophthalmology · doi:10.1016/j.ophtha.2023.06.007 · Cited by 21
Samuels‐Kalow, M. E., Molina, M. F., Ciccolo, G. E., Curt, A. M., Manchanda, E. C. C., de Paz, N., & Camargo, C. A. (2020) · Western Journal of Emergency Medicine · doi:10.5811/westjem.2020.3.45932 · Cited by 20
Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Pediatric Readmissions
Nacht, C. L., Kelly, M. M., Edmonson, M. B., Sklansky, D. J., Shadman, K. A., Kind, A., Zhao, Q., Barreda, C. B., & Coller, R. J. (2022) · Maternal and Child Health Journal · doi:10.1007/s10995-021-03310-4 · Cited by 19
“1 3 Furthermore, ADI may help overcome barriers to integrate SDH into direct care (Gold et al., 2018).”
BackgroundReducing Disparities in Healthy Aging Through an Enhanced Medicare Annual Wellness Visit
Tipirneni, R., Ganguli, I., Ayanian, J. Z., & Langa, K. M. (2018) · Public Policy & Aging Report · doi:10.1093/ppar/pry048 · Cited by 19
Halbert, C. H., Jefferson, M. S., Allen, C. G., Babatunde, O. A., Drake, R. R., Angel, P. M., Savage, S. J., Frey, L. J., Lilly, M. B., Obi, T., et al. (2021) · JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics · doi:10.1200/cci.20.00131 · Cited by 19
Livingston, C. J., Titus, T. M., Yerokun, T. A., & Patel, N. M. (2025) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2025.01.005 · Cited by 18
Cross-Sectional Associations: Social Risks and Diabetes Care Quality, Outcomes
Gold, R. B., Kaufmann, J., Gottlieb, L. M., Weiner, S. J., Hoopes, M. J., Gemelas, J. C., Torres, C. H., Cottrell, E., Hessler, D., Marino, M., et al. (2022) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2022.03.011 · Cited by 19
Self-citationNguyen, K. H., Cemballi, A. G., Fields, J. D., Brown, W., Pantell, M. S., & Lyles, C. R. (2022) · JAMIA Open · doi:10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac014 · Cited by 24
Moen, M., Doede, M., Johantgen, M., et al. (2022) · Journal of Advanced Nursing · doi:10.1111/jan.15485 · Cited by 17
Drake, C., Lian, T., Trogdon, J. G., Edelman, D. E., Eisenson, H., Weinberger, M., Reiter, K. L., & Shea, C. M. (2021) · BMC Cardiovascular Disorders · doi:10.1186/s12872-021-02149-5 · Cited by 18
“Efforts to better integrate these activities into routine clinical encounters and standard of care [6] include social needs EHR documentation strategies [33], innovative care models [34, 35], and cross-sector collaboration [36].”
BackgroundLangevin, R., Berry, A. B. L., Zhang, J., Fockele, C. E., Anderson, L., Hsieh, D. T., Hartzler, A. L., Duber, H. C., & Hsieh, G. (2023) · Applied Clinical Informatics · doi:10.1055/a-2035-5342 · Cited by 16
Provision of Social Care Services by US Hospitals
Iott, B. E., & Anthony, D. L. (2023) · Milbank Quarterly · doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12653 · Cited by 18
Addressing social needs in oncology care: another research-to-practice gap
Haines, E. R., Shelton, R. C., Foley, K. L., et al. (2024) · JNCI Cancer Spectrum · doi:10.1093/jncics/pkae032 · Cited by 16
Social and Mental Health Care Integration
Shields‐Zeeman, L., Lewis, C. C., & Gottlieb, L. M. (2019) · JAMA Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1148 · Cited by 16
Self-citationTakada, S., Gorbach, P. M., Brookmeyer, R., et al. (2020) · AIDS Care · doi:10.1080/09540121.2020.1828798 · Cited by 16
“…social capital at the individual level by assessing their patient’s important relationships, as recommended by the National Academy of Medicine (Gold et al., 2018; Institute of Medicine, 2014); they may leverage social capital by discussing how norms and resources in those relationships may…”
BackgroundInfluentialBako, A. T., McCabe, H., Kasthurirathne, S. N., Halverson, P. K., & Vest, J. R. (2020) · Journal of Social Service Research · doi:10.1080/01488376.2020.1817834 · Cited by 16
“…including financial concerns, food insecurity, transport issues, language, social support, violence and safety, employment, and housing instability (Gold et al., 2018; Kaiser Permanente Social Needs Survey, 2019; Kusnoor et al., 2018; Lehnerer et al., 2019; Page-Reeves et al., 2016; Vest et al.,…”
BackgroundResultFrom Screening to the Receipt of Services: A Qualitative Examination
Schoenthaler, A., Gallager, R. P., Kaplan, S. A., & Hopkins, K. A. (2022) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2022.03.033 · Cited by 16
Metadata
- Authors
- Gold, R., Bunce, A., Cowburn, S., Dambrun, K., Dearing, M., Middendorf, M., Mossman, N., Hollombe, C., Mahr, P., Melgar, G., Davis, J., Gottlieb, L., & Cottrell, E.
- Affiliations
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (US)
- Ochin (US)
- Multnomah County Health Department (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Venue
- The Annals of Family Medicine
- Publisher
- Annals of Family Medicine
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 399-407
- ISSN
- 1544-1709 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-1717
- PMC
- PMC6131002
- OpenAlex
- W2891941547
- Semantic Scholar
- ec90bbff459f6d579a5de4a0ee6586f1aebfa662
- Cited by
- 252
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 31.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Annals of Family Medicine (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R18DK105463)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Keywords
- social determinants of health, electronic health records, community health centers, social needs screening, referral documentation, implementation barriers, primary care, health policy
- MeSH terms
- Community Health Centers, Documentation, Feasibility Studies, Health Plan Implementation, Humans, Pilot Projects, Referral and Consultation, Electronic Health Records, Social Determinants of Health
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