Identifying social factors amongst older individuals in linked electronic health records: An assessment in a population based study.

ABSTRACT: Identification and quantification of health inequities amongst specific social groups is a pre-requisite for designing targeted healthcare interventions. This study investigated the recording of social factors in linked electronic health records (EHR) of individuals aged ≥65 years, to assess the potential of these data to identify the social determinants of disease burden and uptake of healthcare interventions. Methodology was developed for ascertaining social factors recorded on or before a pre-specified index date (01/01/2013) using primary care data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) linked to hospitalisation and deprivation data in a cross-sectional study. Social factors included: religion, ethnicity, immigration status, small area-level deprivation, place of residence (in

SUBMITTER: Jain A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5708811 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature