IMPORTANCE: Data from electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly used for risk prediction. However, EHRs do not reliably collect sociodemographic and neighborhood information, which has been shown to be associated with health. The added contri...
As individuals age, there is potential for dramatic changes in the social and behavioral determinants that affect health status and outcomes. The importance of these determinants has been increasingly recognized in clinical decision-making. We sought...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and is expected to become the top global cause of death by 2030. Although the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in CVD outcomes is well-established, integrating these fact...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Postpartum depression (PPD) affects approximately 20% of women after childbirth and has complex etiology. Existing predictive models of PPD lack training on large, national datasets and comprehensive integration of clinical and social determinants. T...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Trauma care coordination in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), including personalization of resources based on social determinants of health (SDoH), is challenging for already strained healthcare providers. Patient SDoH data collection is inco...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
May 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based approaches for extracting Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) from clinical notes offer healthcare systems an efficient way to identify patients' social needs, yet we know little about the acceptability of th...
The occurrence and progression of cancer is a significant focus of research worldwide, often accompanied by a prolonged disease course. Concurrently, researchers have identified that social determinants of health (SDOH) (employment status, family inc...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2024
OBJECTIVES: To enhance and evaluate the quality of PubMed search results for Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) through the addition of new SDoH terms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 24, 2024
This paper explores the balance between fairness and performance in machine learning classification, predicting the likelihood of a patient receiving anti-microbial treatment using structured data in community nursing wound care electronic health rec...
As a biomedical data scientist, when I think of the future of artificial intelligence in health care, the potential fills me with both excitement and caution. A promising area of innovation, AI can be used to assess the impact of social determinants ...
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