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- Title
Caring for Emergency Department Patients With Complex Medical, Behavioral Health, and Social Needs.
- Authors
Chase, Jack; Bilinski, Jenna; Kanzaria, Hemal K.
- Abstract
This JAMA Performance Improvement article describes experience at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital with an emergency department social medicine (EDSM) team to facilitate care of ED patients with low-acuity medical illnesses and complex psychosocial comorbidities (homelessness, mental illness, substance use, poverty).
- Subjects
UNITED States; EMERGENCY medicine; SOCIAL medicine; HEALTH care teams; PATIENTS' attitudes; COMORBIDITY; HOSPITAL patients; HOSPITAL care quality; SUBSTANCE abuse treatment; MENTAL illness treatment; MEDICINE; RESEARCH; HOSPITAL emergency services; SUBSTANCE abuse; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT-centered care; EVALUATION research; MEDICAL cooperation; SURVEYS; COMPARATIVE studies; SOCIAL case work; DISEASE complications
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2020, Vol 324, Issue 24, p2550
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2020.17017