What you need on Social Needs: Top Ten Papers in Social Emergency Medicine

Harrison Alter, MD MS; Jahan Fahimi, MD MPH; Ewen Wang, MD

For the last few years at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), Drs. Ewen Wang of Stanford University, Jahan Fahimi of UCSF, and Harrison Alter have been privileged to present a course reviewing key contributions to the literature in Social Emergency Medicine. They typically present their favorites in a context of furthering either the science or the practice of Social Emergency Medicine, or both, and comment on both the methods and the findings. If you find yourself at SAEM's meeting and we're still doing this, come by! It's a lot of fun.

2018

• Wettstein ZS, Hoshiko S, Fahimi J, Harrison RJ, Cascio WE, Rappold AG. Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Emergency Department Visits Associated With Wildfire Smoke Exposure in California in 2015.  J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Apr 11;7(8).

• Nguyen OK, Vazquez MA, Charles L, Berger JR, Quiñones H, Fuquay R, Sanders JM, Kapinos KA, Halm EA, Makam AN.  Association of Scheduled vs Emergency-Only Dialysis With Health Outcomes and Costs in Undocumented Immigrants With End-stage Renal Disease.  JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Feb 1;179(2):175-183.

• Niedzwiecki MJ, Sharma PJ, Kanzaria HK, McConville S, Hsia RY.  Factors Associated With Emergency Department Use by Patients With and Without Mental Health Diagnoses. JAMA Netw Open. 2018.  Oct 5;1(6):e183528. doi:  10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.3528.

• Kanak M, Stewart A, Vinci R, Liu S, Sandel M.  Trends in Homeless Children and Young Adults Seeking Shelter in a Boston Pediatric Emergency Department Following State Housing Policy Changes, 2011-2016.  Am J Public Health. 2018 Aug;108(8):1076-1078.

• Pallin R, Siry B, Azrael D, Knoepke CE, Matlock DD, Clement A, Ranney ML, Wintemute GJ, Betz ME.  “Hey, let me hold your guns for a while”: A qualitative study of messaging for firearm suicide prevention.  BehavSci Law.  2019;1-11. 

• Caetano R, Cunradi CB, Alter HJ, Mair C, Yau RK.  Drinking and Intimate Partner Violence Severity Levels Among U.S. Ethnic Groups in an Urban Emergency Department. (JF2)  Acad Emerg Med. 2019 Jan 31.

• McConville S, Mooney AC, Williams BA, Hsia RY. How do ED patients with criminal justice contact compare with other ED users? A retrospective analysis of ED visits in California. BMJ Open. 2018 Jun 21;8(6):e020897.

• loannides KLH, Baehr A, Karp DN, Wiebe DJ, Carr BG, Holena DN, Delgado MK. Measuring Emergency Care Survival: The Implications of Risk-Adjusting for Race and Poverty.  Acad Emerg Med. 2018 May 31. doi: 10.1111/acem.13485

• Taira BR, Orue A. Language assistance for limited English proficiency patients in a public ED: determining the unmet need. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Jan 22;19(1):56.

• Samuels EA, D’Onofrio G, Huntley K, Levin S, Schuur JD, Bart G, Hawk K, Tai B, Campbell CI, Venkatesh AK. A Quality Framework for Emergency Department Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder. Annals of emergency medicine. 2019 Mar 1;73(3):237-47.

2017

• Malecha PW, Williams JH, Kunzler NM, Goldfrank LR, Alter HJ, Doran KM. Material Needs of Emergency Department Patients: A Systematic Review. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2017 Dec 21.

• Spitzer SA, Staudenmayer KL, Tennakoon L, Spain DA, Weiser TG. Costs and financial burden of initial hospitalizations for firearm injuries in the United States, 2006–2014. American journal of public health. 2017 May;107(5):770-4.

• Capp R, Misky GJ, Lindrooth RC, Honigman B, Logan H, Hardy R, Nguyen DQ, Wiler JL. Coordination Program Reduced Acute Care Use And Increased Primary Care Visits Among Frequent Emergency Care Users. Health Affairs. 2017 Oct 1;36(10):1705-11.

• Berezin J, Gale S, Nuru-Jeter A, Lahiff M, Auerswald C, Alter H. Violent injury and neighborhood racial/ethnic diversity in Oakland, California. Journal of urban health. 2017 Dec 1;94(6):882-91.

• Davies S, Schultz E, Raven M, Wang NE, Stocks CL, Delgado MK, McDonald KM. Development and validation of the agency for healthcare research and quality measures of potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits: The ED prevention quality indicators for general health conditions. Health Services Research. 2017 Oct 1;52

•  Carlsson AC, Li X, Holzmann MJ, Ärnlöv J, Wändell P, Gasevic D, Sundquist J, Sundquist K. Neighborhood socioeconomic status at the age of 40 years and ischemic stroke before the age of 50 years: A nationwide cohort study from Sweden. International Journal of Stroke. 2017 Oct;12(8):815-26.

• Axelson DJ, Stull MJ, Coates WC. Social Determinants of Health: A Missing Link in Emergency Medicine Training. AEM Education and Training. 2018 Jan 1;2(1):66-8.

• Raven MC, Tieu L, Lee CT, Ponath C, Guzman D, Kushel M. Emergency Department Use in a Cohort of Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2017 Jan 1;24(1):63-74.

• Greenwood-Ericksen MB, Tipirneni R, Abir M. An Emergency Medicine–Primary Care Partnership to Improve Rural Population Health: Expanding the Role of Emergency Medicine. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2017 Nov 1;70(5):640-7.

• Runyan CW, Brooks-Russell A, Brandspigel S, Betz M, Tung G, Novins D, Agans R. Law enforcement and gun retailers as partners for safely storing guns to prevent suicide: A study in 8 Mountain West States. American Journal of Public Health. 2017 Nov;107(11):1789-94.

• Losonczy LI, Hsieh D, Wang M, Hahn C, Trivedi T, Rodriguez M, Fahimi J, Alter H. The Highland Health Advocates: a preliminary evaluation of a novel programme addressing the social needs of emergency department patients. Emerg Med J. 2017 Sep 1;34(9):599-605.

• Busch SH, Fiellin DA, Chawarski MC, Owens PH, Pantalon MV, Hawk K, Bernstein SL, O'connor PG, D'onofrio G. Cost‐effectiveness of emergency department‐initiated treatment for opioid dependence. Addiction. 2017 Nov 1;112(11):2002-10.

• Dworkis DA, Taylor LA, Peak DA, Bearnot B. Geospatial analysis of emergency department visits for targeting community-based responses to the opioid epidemic. PloS one. 2017 Mar 31;12(3):e0175115.

2016

• Ranney ML, Fletcher J, Alter H, Barsotti C, Bebarta VS, Betz ME, Carter PM, Cerdá M, Cunningham RM, Crane P, Fahimi J, Miller MJ, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Vogel JA, Wintemute GJ, Waseem M, Shah MN; ACEP Technical Advisory Group on Firearm Injury Research, a Subcommittee of the ACEP Research Committee. A Consensus-Driven Agenda for Emergency Medicine Firearm Injury Prevention Research. Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Feb;69(2):227-240.

• Karb RA1, Subramanian SV2, Fleegler EW.  County Poverty Concentration and Disparities in Unintentional Injury Deaths: A Fourteen-Year Analysis of 1.6 Million U.S. Fatalities. PLoS One. 2016 May 4;11(5):e0153516. doi:  10.1371/journal.pone.0153516. eCollection 2016.

• Zhu JM1, Singhal A2, Hsia RY.  Emergency Department Length-Of-Stay For Psychiatric Visits Was Significantly Longer Than For Nonpsychiatric Visits, 2002-11.  Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Sep 1;35(9):1698-706.

• Branas CC, Kondo MC, Murphy SM, South EC, Polsky D, MacDonald JM. Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence. Am J Public Health. 2016 Dec;106(12):2158-2164.

• Doran KM, McCormack RP, Johns EL, Carr BG, Smith SW, Goldfrank LR, Lee DC.  Emergency Department Visits for Homelessness or Inadequate Housing in New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy.  J Urban Health. 2016 Apr;93(2):331-44.

• Anderson ES, Galbraith JW, Deering LJ, Pfeil SK, Todorovic T, Rodgers JB, Forsythe JM, Franco R, Wang H, Wang NE, White DA.  Continuum of Care for HCV Among Patients Diagnosed in the Emergency Department Setting. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Feb 16. [Epub ahead of print]

• Goldstick JE, Carter PM, Walton MA, Dahlberg LL, Sumner SA, Zimmerman MA, Cunningham RM.  Development of the SaFETy Score: A Clinical Screening Tool for Predicting Future Firearm Violence Risk.  Ann Intern Med. 2017 Apr 11. doi: 10.7326/M16-1927. [Epub ahead of print]

• Fahimi J, Larimer E, Hamud-Ahmed W, Anderson E, Schnorr CD, Yen I, Alter HJ.  Long-term mortality of patients surviving firearm violence. Inj Prev. 2016 Apr;22(2):129-34.
  Kwan BM, Rockwood A, Bandle B, Fernald D, Hamer MK, Capp R.  Community Health Workers: Addressing Client Objectives Among Frequent Emergency Department Users.  J Public Health Manag Pract. 2017 [Epub ahead of print]

• Capp R, Kelley L, Ellis P, Carmona J, Lofton A, Cobbs-Lomax D, D'Onofrio G. Reasons for Frequent Emergency Department Use by Medicaid Enrollees: A Qualitative Study.  Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Apr;23(4):476-81.

Foundational Articles:  

• Gordon JA. The hospital emergency department as a social welfare institution. Ann Emerg Med. 1999 Mar;33(3):321-5.

• Anderson ES, Lippert S, Newberry J, Bernstein E, Alter HJ, Wang NE. Addressing Social Determinants of Health from the Emergency Department through Social Emergency Medicine.  West J Emerg Med. 2016 Jul;17(4):487-9.