Development of a Social Risk Score in the Electronic Health Record to Identify Social Needs Among Underserved Populations: Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with unmet social needs and social determinants of health (SDOH) challenges continue to face a disproportionate risk of increased prevalence of disease, health care use, higher health care costs, and worse outcomes. Some existing predictive models have used the available data on social needs and SDOH challenges to predict health-related social needs or the need for various social service referrals. Despite these one-off efforts, the work to date suggests that many technical and organizational challenges must be surmounted before SDOH-integrated solutions can be implemented on an ongoing, wide-scale basis within most US-based health care organizations.

Objective

We aimed to retrieve available information in the electronic health record (EHR) relevant to th

SUBMITTER: Hatef E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10966439 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature