A Novel Approach to Developing Disease and Outcome-Specific Social Risk Indices.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A variety of industry composite indices are employed within health research in risk-adjusted outcome measures and to assess health-related social needs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the relationships among risk adjustment, clinical outcomes, and composite indices of social risk have become relevant topics for research and healthcare operations. Despite the widespread use of these indices, composite indices are often comprised of correlated variables and therefore may be affected by information duplicity of their underlying risk factors.

Methods

A novel approach is proposed to assign outcome- and disease group-driven weights to social risk variables to form disease and outcome-specific social risk indices and apply the approach to the county-level Centers for Di

SUBMITTER: Korvink M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10156642 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature