Integrating social determinants of health screening and referral during routine emergency department care: evaluation of reach and implementation challenges.

Background: Despite the importance of social determinants in health outcomes, little is known about the best practices for screening and referral during clinical encounters. This study aimed to implement universal social needs screening and community service referrals in an academic emergency department (ED), evaluating for feasibility, reach, and stakeholder perspectives.

Methods: Between January 2019 and February 2020, ED registration staff screened patients for social needs using a 10-item, low-literacy, English-Spanish screener on touchscreens that generated automatic referrals to community service outreach specialists and data linkages.

Exploring experiences of COVID-19-positive individuals from social media posts.

Aims: This study aimed to explore the experience of individuals who claimed to be COVID-19 positive via their Twitter feeds.

Background: Public social media data are valuable to understanding people's experiences of public health phenomena. To improve care to those with COVID-19, this study explored themes from Twitter feeds, generated by individuals who self-identified as COVID-19 positive.

Consider the root of the problem: increasing trainee skills at assessing and addressing social determinants of health.

National pediatrics guidelines recommend screening all patients for unmet social needs to improve self-management of chronic conditions and health outcomes and to reduce costs. Practitioners involved in training pediatric clinicians need to understand how to prepare pediatric clinicians to effectively conduct social needs screening and where current training methods fall short. Our qualitative study investigated whether using "standardized" patients during trainee education improved trainees' ability to assess and address adolescent patients' social needs.