Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Estimated Costs of Intervening in Health-Related Social Needs Detected in Primary Care
- Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD
Submitted on: May, 2023
Health-related social needs are increasingly being screened for in primary care practices, but it remains unclear how much additional financing is required to address those needs to improve health outcomes. The findings of this study suggest that substantial resources would be needed to implement a comprehensive approach to addressing social needs that falls largely outside of existing federal financing mechanisms.
Interoperability among hospitals treating populations that have been marginalized
- Jordan Everson PhD, MPP
Submitted on: May, 2023
Interoperable exchange—the sharing and integration of health information between organizations—provides important benefits to patients. While hospital engagement in interoperable exchange and participation in national networks has steadily increased over time, systematic differences in hospital engagement in interoperability exist. Hospital engagement in interoperability and other advanced usages of electronic health records (EHR) have been found to be lower among smaller, rural, and independent hospitals compared to large, urban, health system-based hospitals.
Measuring Trust in Primary Care
- Zachary Merenstein
Submitted on: May, 2023
Trust is a fundamental aspect of any human relationship, and medical care is no exception. An ongoing, trusting relationship between clinicians and patients has shown demonstrable value to primary care. However, there is currently no measure of trust in general use, and none endorsed for use by most value-based payment programs. This review searched the literature for any existing measures of patient trust in primary care clinicians and assessed their potential to be implemented as a patient-reported outcome measure.
