Becker's Healthcare January 30, 2023
Behavioral flags in electronic health records are designed to to help prevent violence against clinicians, but the flags might also prevent some patients from receiving full care, according to a recent study.
A retrospective study published Jan. 19 in JAMA Network Open analyzed more than 426,000 emergency room visits in three Philadelphia hospitals between January 2017 and December 2019. Of more than 195,000 patients included in the analysis, 683 had a behavioral flag.
Researchers found patients with flags were likely to have one of more of the following characteristics: male, Black or have Medicaid insurance. Researchers also found flags led...
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