Understanding the social determinants of health and genetic factors contributing to the differences observed in COVID-19 incidence and mortality between …

J Rodriguez, Y Quintana - Journal of the National Medical Association, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has been a devastating disease, especially in underserved communities. Data
has shown that Indigenous peoples, Latinx communities, and Black Americans have a 3.3 …

A performance management system in healthcare for all seasons?

M Vainieri, G Noto, F Ferre, LC Rosella - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Health systems face challenges which are inherent to care demand and supply evolution (ie,
demographic change, new technologies) or are the results of unexpected occurrence …

Social determinants of health: considerations for care of older Veterans

L Muirhead, KV Echt, AM Alexis, A Mirk - Nursing Clinics, 2022 - nursing.theclinics.com
Social and structural forces that influence health have garnered national attention as these
forces, inclusive of socioeconomic status (SES), education, employment, income, and other …

Opioid use in cancer patients compared with noncancer pain patients in a veteran population

SC Mudumbai, H He, JQ Chen, A Kapoor… - JNCI Cancer …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Opioid safety initiatives may secondarily impact opioid prescribing and pain
outcomes for cancer care. Methods We reviewed electronic health record data at a tertiary …

Using administrative data to predict suicide after psychiatric hospitalization in the veterans health administration system

RC Kessler, MS Bauer, TM Bishop, OV Demler… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is a very high suicide rate in the year after psychiatric hospital discharge. Intensive
postdischarge case management programs can address this problem but are not cost …

Racial differences in patient portal activation and research enrollment among patients with prostate cancer

CH Halbert, M Jefferson, CG Allen… - JCO clinical cancer …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine racial differences in patient portal
activation and research participation among patients with prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND …

Automatic extraction of social determinants of health from medical notes of chronic lower back pain patients

DS Lituiev, B Lacar, S Pak… - Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objective We applied natural language processing and inference methods to extract social
determinants of health (SDoH) information from clinical notes of patients with chronic low …

Impact of area deprivation index on the performance of claims-based risk-adjustment models in predicting health care costs and utilization

HY Chang, E Hatef, X Ma, JP Weiner… - Population health …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Traditionally, risk-adjustment models do not address the characteristics of minority
populations, such as race or socioeconomic status. This study aimed to evaluate the added …

Implementing evidence-based practices to improve primary care for high-risk patients: study protocol for the VA high-RIsk VETerans (RIVET) type III effectiveness …

EE Jimenez, AM Rosland, SE Stockdale… - Implementation Science …, 2024 - Springer
Background Patients with significant multimorbidity and other factors that make healthcare
challenging to access and coordinate are at high risk for poor health outcomes. Although …

Integrating electronic health record, cancer registry, and geospatial data to study lung cancer in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ethnic groups

MC DeRouen, CA Thompson, AJ Canchola, A Jin… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2021 - AACR
Background: A relatively high proportion of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific
Islander (AANHPI) females with lung cancer have never smoked. We used an integrative …