Emergency department use and geospatial variation in social determinants of health: a pilot study from South Carolina.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems are increasingly addressing patients' social determinants of health (SDoH)-related needs and investigating their effects on health resource use. SDoH needs vary geographically; however, little is known about how this geographic variation in SDoH needs impacts the relationship between SDoH needs and health resource use.

Methods

This study uses data from a SDoH survey administered to a pilot patient population in a single health system and the electronic medical records of the surveyed patients to determine if the impact of SDoH needs on emergency department use varies geospatially at the US Census block group level. A Bayesian zero-inflated negative binomial model was used to determine if emergency department visits after SDoH screening varied across

SUBMITTER: DeMass R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10416539 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature