Sensitivity and Specificity of Real-World Social Factor Screening Approaches.

ABSTRACT: Health care organizations are increasingly documenting patients for social risk factors in structured data. Two main approaches to documentation, ICD-10 Z codes and screening questions, face limited adoption and conceptual challenges. This study compared estimates of social risk factors obtained via screening questions and ICD-10 Z diagnoses coding, as used in clinical practice, to estiamtes from validated survey instruments in a sample of adult primary care and emergency department patients at an urban safety-net health system. Financial strain, transportation barriers, food insecurity, and housing instability were independently assessed using instruments with published reliability and validity. These four social factors were also being collected by the health system in screening question

SUBMITTER: Vest JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8588755 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature