RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Practice Capacity to Address Patients’ Social Needs and Physician Satisfaction and Perceived Quality of Care
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 42
OP 45
DO 10.1370/afm.2334
VO 17
IS 1
A1 Matthew S. Pantell
A1 Emilia De Marchis
A1 Angeli Bueno
A1 Laura M. Gottlieb
YR 2019
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/17/1/42.abstract
AB Recent studies have explored clinician impacts of health care–based interventions that respond to patients’ social and economic needs. These studies were limited by available clinician data. We used the Commonwealth International Health Policy Survey of 890 primary care physicians to examine associations between clinic capacity to respond to patients’ social needs and physician satisfaction, stress, and perceived medical care quality. Results suggest that perceived capacity to address social needs is strongly associated with both clinician satisfaction and perceived medical care quality. Our findings add to a growing literature on the potential return on investment of clinical interventions to address social needs.