Charlie M Wray1, Marzieh Vali1, Louise C Walter1, Lee Christensen1, Samir Abdelrahman1, Wendy Chapman1, Salomeh Keyhani1. 1. is an Internist in the Division of Hospital Medicine; is a Statistician in the Northern California Institute for Research and Education; is a Geriatrician in the Division of Geriatrics; and is an Internist in the Division of General Internal Medicine; all at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. is a Project Manager and is an Assistant Professor, both in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah in Salt Lake City. is the Associate Dean of Digital Health and Informatics in the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Charlie Wray is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Louise Walter and Salomeh Keyhani are Professors of Medicine; all in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Recently, numerous studies have linked social determinants of health (SDoH) with clinical outcomes. While this association is well known, the interfacility variability of these risk favors within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is not known. Such information could be useful to the VHA for resource and funding allocation. The aim of this study is to explore the interfacility variability of 5 SDoH within the VHA. METHODS: In a cohort of patients (aged ≥ 65 years) hospitalized at VHA acute care facilities with either acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), or pneumonia in 2012, we assessed (1) the proportion of patients with any of the following five documented SDoH: lives alone, marginal housing, alcohol use disorder, substance use disorder, and use of substance use services, using administrative diagnosis codes and clinic stop codes; and (2) the documented facility-level variability of these SDoH. To examine whether variability was due to regional coding differences, we assessed the variation of living alone using a validated natural language processing (NLP) algorithm. RESULTS: The proportion of veterans admitted for AMI, HF, and pneumonia with SDoH was low. Across all 3 conditions, lives alone was the most common SDoH (2.2% [interquartile range (IQR), 0.7-4.7]), followed by substance use disorder (1.3% [IQR, 0.5-2.1]), and use of substance use services (1.2% [IQR, 0.6-1.8]). Using NLP, the proportion of hospitalized veterans with lives alone was higher for HF (14.4% vs 2.0%, P < .01), pneumonia (11% vs 1.9%, P < .01), and AMI (10.2% vs 1.4%, P < .01) compared with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition codes. Interfacility variability was noted with both administrative and NLP extraction methods. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of SDoH in administrative data among patients hospitalized for common medical issues is low and variable across VHA facilities. Significant facility-level variation of 5 SDoH was present regardless of extraction method.
INTRODUCTION: Recently, numerous studies have linked social determinants of health (SDoH) with clinical outcomes. While this association is well known, the interfacility variability of these risk favors within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is not known. Such information could be useful to the VHA for resource and funding allocation. The aim of this study is to explore the interfacility variability of 5 SDoH within the VHA. METHODS: In a cohort of patients (aged ≥ 65 years) hospitalized at VHA acute care facilities with either acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), or pneumonia in 2012, we assessed (1) the proportion of patients with any of the following five documented SDoH: lives alone, marginal housing, alcohol use disorder, substance use disorder, and use of substance use services, using administrative diagnosis codes and clinic stop codes; and (2) the documented facility-level variability of these SDoH. To examine whether variability was due to regional coding differences, we assessed the variation of living alone using a validated natural language processing (NLP) algorithm. RESULTS: The proportion of veterans admitted for AMI, HF, and pneumonia with SDoH was low. Across all 3 conditions, lives alone was the most common SDoH (2.2% [interquartile range (IQR), 0.7-4.7]), followed by substance use disorder (1.3% [IQR, 0.5-2.1]), and use of substance use services (1.2% [IQR, 0.6-1.8]). Using NLP, the proportion of hospitalized veterans with lives alone was higher for HF (14.4% vs 2.0%, P < .01), pneumonia (11% vs 1.9%, P < .01), and AMI (10.2% vs 1.4%, P < .01) compared with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition codes. Interfacility variability was noted with both administrative and NLP extraction methods. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of SDoH in administrative data among patients hospitalized for common medical issues is low and variable across VHA facilities. Significant facility-level variation of 5 SDoH was present regardless of extraction method.
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