Perioperative Evaluation of Health-Related Social Needs: Comparing Preoperative Phone Interviews and Bedside Admission Screening

K. Bailey Thomson Blake, BA, Kurt S. Schultz, MD, Yuqing Huang, BS, Eliza J. Epstein, BA, Samantha M. Linhares, MD, Emeri A. Tompkins, Alicia Mohli, Ira L. Leeds, MD, MBA, ScM 

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Acknowledgements

We thank the patients who participated, the Yale New Haven Health System nursing staff, the Yale Department of Surgery, and members of the SASSY Lab for their contributions. A grant from The Research Foundation of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and CTSA Grant Number UL1 TR001863 supported this work.

This research was completed as part of a Yale School of Medicine First Year Summer Research Fellowship, which was generously supported by the Arons-Millard Student Research Fund for Surgery.