Food insecurity, social needs, and smoking status among patients in a county hospital system.

Tobacco use in the U.S. is increasingly concentrated among populations with socioeconomic disadvantages such as food insecurity.

A Framework for Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Screening and Referrals for Assistance.

Introduction/objectives: Many health systems screen patients for social determinants of health and refer patients with social needs to community service organizations for assistance. We developed a framework based on sequential steps to evaluate this process.

Methods: We reviewed efforts by The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio and identified 6 sequential steps: patient screened, has social needs, consents to referral to a service organization, referral placed, referral accepted, and referral outcome.

Association of Repeated Measurements With Blood Pressure Control in Primary Care.

This observational cohort study evaluated the effect of a second blood pressure (BP) measurement on the rate of BP control among more than 38 000 patients with diagnosed hypertension and who were followed in primary care.