Medical Economics November 4, 2024
Patients agree that clinicians should know social determinants of health data, but barriers surrounding clinician-patient relationships and the collection process make the exchange of information difficult.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) set out to evaluate patients’ experiences when sharing social determinant of health (SDOH) data with clinicians, as well as clinician, patient and care partner perspectives on possible barriers to, and facilitators of, the processes of collecting, documenting and exchanging the information. Research showed that clinicians and patients agreed regarding the importance of SDOH data, and they desire a structured, standardized method of SDOH data collection. Issues that arise in the data collection process include beliefs about how the information will be used,...
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