Performance of health care service area definitions for capturing variation in inpatient care and social determinants of health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the degree to which health care service area (HCSA) definitions captured hospitalizations and heterogeneity in social determinants of health (SDOH).

Data sources and study setting

Geospatial data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Census Bureau, and the Dartmouth Institute. Drive-time isochrones from MapBox. Area Deprivation Index (ADI) data. 2017 inpatient discharge data from Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin, State Emergency Department Databases and State Inpatient Databases, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; and Fee-For-Service Medicare data in 48 states.

Study design

Cross-sectional, descriptive analysis.

Data collection/e

SUBMITTER: Crook H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11249811 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature