Toward Understanding the Value of Missing Social Determinants of Health Data in Care Transition Planning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social determinants of health play an important role in the likelihood of readmission and therefore should be considered in care transition planning. Unfortunately, some social determinants that can be of value to care transition planners are missing in the electronic health record. Rather than trying to understand the value of data that are missing, decision makers often exclude these data. This exclusion can lead to failure to design appropriate care transition programs, leading to readmissions.

Objectives

This article examines the value of missing social determinants data to emergency department (ED) revisits, and subsequent readmissions.

Methods

A deidentified data set of 123,697 people (18+ years), with at least one ED visit in 2017 at the University o

SUBMITTER: Feldman SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7449791 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature