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. 2024 Jan 2;7(1):e2352365.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.52365.

Social Risk, Social Need, and Use of the Emergency Department

Katherine Dickerson Mayes  1 , Rebecca E Cash  1 , Katherine H Schiavoni  2 , Christine Vogeli  3 , Anne N Thorndike  4 , Carlos A Camargo Jr  1 , Margaret Samuels-Kalow  1
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Social Risk, Social Need, and Use of the Emergency Department

Katherine Dickerson Mayes et al. JAMA Netw Open. .
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Plain language summary

This cohort study examines the association of social risk and social need with emergency department use by patients within a Medicaid accountable care organization who were screened for adverse social determinants of health in primary care.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Vogeli reported being past Director of Evaluation and Research, Mass General Brigham Population Health. Dr Samuels-Kalow reported receiving grant funding from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation and the National Foundation of Emergency Medicine during the conduct of the study. No other disclosures were reported.

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