Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Identification of Patients With CKD Using Electronic Health Records.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Screening for chronic kidney disease (CKD) is recommended for patients with diabetes and hypertension as stated by the respective professional societies. However, CKD, a silent disease usually detected at later stages, is associated with low socioeconomic status (SES). We assessed whether adding census tract SES status to the standard screening approach improves our ability to identify patients with CKD.

Study design

Screening test analysis.

Settings & participants

Electronic health records (EHR) of 256,162 patients seen at a health care system in the 7-county Minneapolis/St. Paul area and linked census tract data.

Exposure

The first quartile of census tract SES (median value of owner-occupied housing units <$165,200; average household inc

SUBMITTER: Ghazi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10156131 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature