Piloting a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Identify Patients With Social Needs and Provide Navigation Services and Referral to Community-Based Organizations: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Elham Hatef   ^{1, 2} , MPH, MD ;   Thomas Richards   ² , MS ;   Kristin Topel   ³ , MPH ;   Sofia Hail   ⁴ , MD ;   Christopher Kitchen   ² , MS ;   Katherine Shaw   ⁵ , MD ;   Talan Zhang   ² , PhD ;   Elyse C Lasser   ² , DrPH ;   Jonathan P Weiner   ² , DrPH

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

² Center for Population Health Information Technology, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

³ Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁵ Johns Hopkins Community Physicians East Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, United States