Poverty, criminal justice involvement, biggest risk factors for emergency department use among youth [healio.com]
Living in poverty or involvement in the juvenile or criminal justice system were the social complexity risk factors that made children more likely to use EDs, according to findings published in Annals in Family Medicine. “Screening for social determinants of health is challenging but critically important for optimizing child health outcomes,” Kimberly C. Arthur, MPH, of the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and colleagues wrote. “We aimed to test the feasibility of using an integrated...