Documenting social determinants of health-related clinical activities using standardized medical vocabularies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Growing recognition that health is shaped by social and economic circumstances has resulted in a rapidly expanding set of clinical activities related to identifying, diagnosing, and intervening around patients' social risks in the context of health care delivery. The objective of this exploratory analysis was to identify existing documentation tools in common US medical coding systems reflecting these emerging clinical practices to improve patients' social health.

Materials and methods

We identified 20 social determinants of health (SDH)-related domains used in 6 published social health assessment tools. We then used medical vocabulary search engines to conduct three independent searches for codes related to these 20 domains included in common medical coding syste

SUBMITTER: Arons A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6951949 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature