Unmet social needs and diverticulitis: a phenotyping algorithm and cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To validate a phenotyping algorithm for gradations of diverticular disease severity and investigate relationships between unmet social needs and disease severity.

Materials and methods

An algorithm was designed in the All of Us Research Program to identify diverticulosis, mild diverticulitis, and operative or recurrent diverticulitis requiring multiple inpatient admissions. This was validated in an independent institution and applied to a cohort in the All of Us Research Program. Distributions of individual-level social barriers were compared across quintiles of an area-level index through fold enrichment of the barrier in the fifth (most deprived) quintile relative to the first (least deprived) quintile. Social needs of food insecurity, housing instability, and ca

SUBMITTER: Ueland TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12012367 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature