Background: Emergency departments are a last resort for some socially vulnerable patients
without an acute medical illness (colloquially known as “socially admitted” patients) …

Aims and objectives To explore the experiences of nurses caring for socially at‐risk patients
and gain an understanding of the challenges nurses face when providing care. Background …

Healthcare organizations' continued restrictions on hospital visitation during the COVID-19
pandemic can be considered a violation of the rights of hospitalized patients to receive …

“Social admission” is a non-diagnostic label referring to an admission to a hospital for which
no medical or health condition is deemed amenable to reversibility or rehabilitation; rather …

Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with larger bodied patients (n= 20) and their
healthcare practitioners (n= 22) in Canada, this paper combines micro and macro …

Background Medically underserved or low socioeconomic status (SES) patients face
significant vulnerability and a high risk of adverse events following hospital discharge. The …

Measuring patients' care experience is necessary to understanding and improving health
care quality and is a core component of patient-centered care. In this study, we test whether …

Patient-centered care is an important goal in the delivery of healthcare. However, many
patients do not engage in preventive medical care. In this pilot study, we conducted twenty in …

Objectives Patients commonly come to the emergency department (ED) with social needs.
To address this, we created the Highland Health Advocates (HHA), an ED-based help desk …

Background There is increasing interest in collecting sociodemographic and social needs
data in hospital settings to inform patient care and health equity. However, few studies have …