Inadequacy of Current Screening Measures for Health-Related Social Needs

Arvin Garg; Alison LeBlanc; Jean L Raphael

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.13948

Inadequacy of Current Screening Measures for Health-Related Social Needs

JAMA. 2023 Sep 12;330(10):915-916. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.13948.

Authors

Arvin Garg^{1

2}, Alison LeBlanc^{1

2}, Jean L Raphael^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Child Health Equity Center, Department of Pediatrics, UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
² UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, Massachusetts.
³ Section of Academic General Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
⁴ Center for Child Health Policy and Advocacy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

PMID: 37603327
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.13948

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses recently established quality measures designed to screen patients for health-related social needs and how they may not only come up short, but impede progress in health equity.