EHR Intelligence October 19, 2021
Standardized EHR documentation practices for SDOH such as race and ethnicity could help prevent data quality issues that can lead to bias.
Social determinant of health (SDOH) data quality issues signal the need for standardized SDOH EHR documentation practices to avoid bias and promote health equity, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers conducted a review of 76 studies related to SDOH data quality.
The majority of articles that discussed race, ethnicity, or country-of-origin data (65 percent) examined data plausibility, which refers to data accuracy.
However, researchers noted misclassification bias as a problem or a...
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