Documentation and review of social determinants of health data in the EHR: measures and associated insights.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) increasingly include designated fields to capture social determinants of health (SDOH). We developed measures to characterize their use, and use of other SDOH data types, to optimize SDOH data integration.

Materials and methods

We developed 3 measures that accommodate different EHR data types on an encounter or patient-year basis. We implemented these measures-documented during encounter (DDE) captures documentation occurring during the encounter; documented by discharge (DBD) includes DDE plus documentation occurring any time prior to admission; and reviewed during encounter (RDE) captures whether anyone reviewed documented data-for the newly available structured SDOH fields and 4 other comparator SDOH data types (problem list, inp

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633631 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature