Social Risk Screening and Response Equity: Assessment by Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Community Health Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Little has previously been reported about the implementation of social risk screening across racial/ethnic/language groups. To address this knowledge gap, the associations between race/ethnicity/language, social risk screening, and patient-reported social risks were examined among adult patients at community health centers.

Methods

Patient- and encounter-level data from 2016 to 2020 from 651 community health centers in 21 U.S. states were used; data were extracted from a shared Epic electronic health record and analyzed between December 2020 and February 2022. In adjusted logistic regression analyses stratified by language, robust sandwich variance SE estimators were applied with clustering on patient's primary care facility.

Results

Social risk screening

SUBMITTER: Torres CIH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10652909 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature