"Engaging stakeholders in integrating social determinants of health into electronic health records: a scoping review".

ABSTRACT: Social, environmental, and behavioural factors impact human health. Integrating these social determinants of health (SDOH) into electronic health records (EHR) may improve individual and population health. But how these data are collectedand their use in clinical settings remain unclear. We reviewed efforts to integrate SDOH into EHR in the U.S. and Canada, especially how this implementation serves Indigenous peoples. We followed an established scoping review process, performing iterative keyword searches in subject-appropriate databases, reviewing identified works' bibliographies, and soliciting recommendations from subject-matter experts. We reviewed 20 articles from an initial set of 2,459. Most discussed multiple SDOH indicator standards, with the National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) t

SUBMITTER: Wark K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8276667 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature