Detecting Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health with Structured and Free-Text Clinical Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are environmental and behavioral factors that often impede disease management and result in sexually transmitted infections. Despite their importance, SBDH are inconsistently documented in electronic health records (EHRs) and typically collected only in an unstructured format. Evidence suggests that structured data elements present in EHRs can contribute further to identify SBDH in the patient record.

Objective

Explore the automated inference of both the presence of SBDH documentation and individual SBDH risk factors in patient records. Compare the relative ability of clinical notes and structured EHR data, such as laboratory measurements and diagnoses, to support inference.

Methods

We attempt to infer the

SUBMITTER: Feller DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056402 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature