Emergency departments trying to help patients with social problems such as food insecurity and housing insecurity are meeting with varying degrees of success, according to reports from researchers here at the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians. [MedPage Today]

Although screening in the emergency department for food insecurity is becoming more common, "many patients experience difficulty in connecting to the resources that we refer them to," Alex Ulintz, MD, of the Ohio State University in Columbus and formerly a resident at Indiana University in Bloomington, said Tuesday.

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