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Social Risk Factors in Hospitalized Patients With Disabilities: Prevalence and Patterns

  • By

  • Lauren Leviton

  • Carol Haywood

  • Lynn Huang

  • Clayton Barnes

  • Jane S. Kim

  • Tara Lagu

  • Kevin J. O'Leary

  • October 27, 2026

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    Among 335 hospitalized patients, 222 (66.3%) reported at least 1 disability and 104 (31.0%) reported at least 1 social risk factor.

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    Social risk factors were more common among patients with disability than among those without disability (37.8% vs 17.7%; P < .001).

  • 3

    Among patients with disability, 25.2% reported transportation barriers, 20.8% reported food insecurity, and 13.1% reported housing instability.

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    Transportation barriers were more frequent among patients with communication, visual, or dressing/bathing-related disabilities than among patients without those disability types.

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    The authors noted that the sample lacked adequate power for generalizability and called for further investigation in larger, more diverse patient populations.

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Prevalence of social risk factors among hospitalized patients with disabilities

  • by Lauren Leviton, Carol Haywood, Lynn Huang, Clayton Barnes, Jane S. Kim, Tara Lagu, Kevin J. O'Leary

  • October 27, 2026

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